Septima Clark Learning Center

Welcome to the Septima Clark Learning Center

Staff librarians Ashby Haywood and Maranda Perez launched the Southern Memory Workers program in 2024 to foster a network of community-run archives across the region and beyond that can house and share collective memory of local and regional movement legacies. Memory work is a critical intervention for restoring and sustaining our liberation movements through public history tours, personal journaling practices, community-based archives, archival digitization, documentary photography, oral history, zines, and community mapping.

Southern Memory Worker Collaborative

The Southern Memory Workers Collaborative is a network of activists, organizers, and cultural workers who are dedicated to documenting, preserving and stewarding stories, traditions, and liberatory practices in the U.S. South.