HIST 399: Active History: History of Black Lives Matter (HC)

resources on many different topics related to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Notable for its sections on historical contexts

Entries linked to this page describe the founding (and founders) of the movement. The entries that follow identify incidents both before and after 2013 which have inspired the activism of Black Lives Matter members and supporters. BlackPast promotes the study and understanding of Black history for a wide, general audience..

See the Resources link for updates, reports and toolkits. See also the website for the Philly chapter of Black Lives Matter.

Preserves information, analysis, and resources related to state sanctioned violence in the United States. Material on this page dates from 2014-2016.

Documenting Ferguson is a freely available resource that seeks to preserve and make accessible the digital media captured and created by community members following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014.

This database seeks to document examples of street art from around the world that have emerged in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd as part of an ongoing movement demanding social justice and equality. Produced by the Urban Art Mapping team at the University of St Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota.

This collection of 86 photos represents locations of street art, graffiti, murals, and other scenes of the Black Lives Matter movement that took place in Soho, New York City in early-June, 2020. The images were captured in the days following the murder of George Floyd. The photos were taken by Bonnie Lawrence. See also the #BLM in SoHo ESRI StoryMap and Shapefile with photos in Spatial Data Repository.

Documents protests against police brutality, vigilantism, and racial injustice following the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody.

This R Markdown workbook document is a structured approach to quantitatively analyze the reaction to George Floyd’s death and address its political consequences using Twitter data. Anyone can use this workbook to see how we use Twitter data to do sentiment analysis in R statistical programming language.

This repository exists to accumulate and contextualize evidence of police brutality during the 2020 George Floyd protests. See the table of contents for links to incident reports sorted by states.

We believe the data represented on this site is the most comprehensive accounting of people killed by police since 2013. This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database.

Information on federal grants to local law enforcement agencies. Also includes police misconduct complaints