HowardZinn.org coordinated a booth with the SNCC Legacy Project, Colored Conventions Project, and eight other groups under the banner of “People’s History in the Digital Age” at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference, Dec. 5–6, 2025, in Washington D.C. This booth featured digital collections of the voices and histories missing from mainstream history.
Located next door to the Zinn Education Project exhibit, this space was a hub for gathering, connecting, and learning about the various projects working to bring histories to digital life.
Computer stations allowed visitors to view online digital collections of photos and documents, and to learn about available classroom resources, including K–12 lessons and digital exhibits. Staff members from some of the participating digital projects attended the conference and were talk directly with teachers and help promote all the projects.
Also on display was a pop-up photo exhibit featuring a variety of people’s history projects across the country.
In addition to HowardZinn.org, groups featured included:
Colored Conventions Project
Bringing seven decades of Black organizing in the 1800s to digital life with hundreds of digitized documents including convention meeting minutes, proceedings, and transcripts; curriculum for K–college; dozens of exhibits; and the Douglass Day transcribe-a-thon that engages students and communities to help make Black history records accessible.
SNCC Legacy Project
Preserving and extending the legacy of the freedom struggle. The SNCC and Grassroots Organizing Series is filled with engaging primary documents, Freedom Movement stories, photos, discussion questions, and activities and can be used with the SNCC Digital Gateway.
American Social History Project
Making the past, and the lives of the working people and “ordinary” Americans who shaped it, vivid and meaningful.
The Black Teacher Archive
Materials created by professional organizations of African-American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations.
Densho: WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Preserving and sharing history of the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans to promote equity and justice today.
John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History
Collects, preserves, and promotes the use of published and unpublished primary sources on Africa and people of the African Diaspora in the Americas.
Last Seen Project: Finding Family After Slavery
Recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade.
Mapping Deportations: U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
Unmasking the history of racism in U.S. immigration enforcement.
New York City Civil Rights History Project
Explore the roots of racist and ableist segregation in education.
Virginia Interscholastic Association
Preserving the legacy of African-American students and adults achievements who participated in the VIA (1954-70) and VIA’s predecessor organization.
We are planning to host future booth display collaborations. If you are interested in participating—or would like to sponsor this project—please reach out at contact@howardzinn.org.
