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It is rare that one gets a first hand view of a newly emergent opposition movement. This one is arising in opposition to efforts to undermine a long and established democracy in the United States; making it even more unique. While the United States was never perfect; and growing representation has long been a long undertaking; it had a representative system of government since its inception as a country in 1776. The U.S. has undergone Slavery, McCarthyism, Jim Crow and a Guilded Age where power was held in the hands of the few. Each age led to actions that ended each regime; but this time it has been very destructive to federal systems, services, and has advanced Presidential overreach.

How does a country with nearly 250 years of representative government respond to a fascist attempt to overthrow American democracy? The initial reaction was shock but there is a growing response by civilians who recognized they cannot wait for subdued congressional representatives to check presidential power; that “We must save ourselves”. With that realization, movements, leaders, independent media are creating a pushback utilizing peaceful resistance as used in the Civil Rights era. Major broadcasters reluctant to cover the protests, including ones one April 5th - with over five million protesting nationwide - are being replaced by independent broadcasters and leaders who livestream the growing opposition. This guide is an attempt to summarize important actions and actors during this historic moment. The Internet Archive has the ability to Web Archive important sites including that of the U.S.

Government. These tend to be static pictures of the site. Similarly librarians and researchers can utilize the Internet Archive to archive important research and data sets that they feel are in danger of being removed. Many rushed to archive this upon Trump’s election as President in his first and second terms. The IA Wayback Machine hosts the End of Term Web Archive, which “collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.” These are timestamped snapshots of websites. Its director told NPR that six weeks into Trump’s second term, some 73,000 government web pages (and counting) were cataloged before being expunged, including reportedly the only copy of the House Jan.

6 Committee’s interactive timeline of the 2021 Capitol Riot. 1. Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, which developed the web-archiving tool, Perma.cc, released in February a new archive called Data.Gov Archive. It houses more than 300,000 data sets from data.gov, the U.S. government’s repository of open data. “We’ve built this project on our long-standing commitment to preserving government records and making public information available to everyone,” the lab said in announcing the project.

The Leibniz Center for Science and Technology are building a Dark Web of Data harvested from ARXIV at Cornell University. The data is being saved and preserved but is not yet accessible as they are reviewing the permission / rights first. While the Trump Administration is busy scrubbing official transcripts of Trump’s comments. The Nonprofit American Presidency Project hosts copies of Trump’s speeches and executive orders, social media posts, press pool reports, media interviews, and more—from both his terms as well as his campaigns and transition periods. The Data Rescue Project is a coordinated effort among a group of data organizations, including IASSIST, RDAP, and members of the Data Curation Network. Their goal is to serve as a clearinghouse for data rescue-related efforts and data access points for public US governmental data that are currently at risk.

We want to know what is happening in the community so that we can coordinate focus. Efforts include: data gathering, data curation and cleaning, data cataloging, and providing sustained access and distribution of data assets. This section covers tools and databases that cover resistance movements in general. For resources pertaining to more specific movements, please see the "Resources by Movement" tab. Be sure to check the HPNL Library Newspaper Database for access to specific newspapers. You should also consult the guide on Finding Current News or the guide on Historical Newspapers depending on your news needs.

Identifies articles in regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires and newspaper columns, as well as TV and radio news transcripts. Provides cover-to-cover full text for over 20 national (U.S.) and international newspapers, including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times (London), The Toronto Star, etc. Also contains selected full text from more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald, The New York Daily News, The San Jose... In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S.

Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Includes current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, and more. This guide refers primarily to selected sources of descriptive datasets and statistical sources in the fields of social sciences, health, and education and areas within the social sciences, such as crime, population and demography,... Find in depth scholarly information on the following topics in the data bases listed on the "Home" screen. Text of Fugitive Slave Bill (Fugitive Slave Act), "as penned by the Senate and House of Representatives, Sept. 12, 1850, and approved Sept.

18, 1850 by President Fillmore. Anonymous manuscript text of abolitionist speech. The author criticized the American Colonization Society; addressed the issue of compensation of slaveholders for the price of slaves; condemned churches condoning slavery; and stated that interracial sexual relations were the product of slavery. Issues raised appear to concern the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, particularly the author's anger over the imprisonment of fugitive slaves without trial and the requirement that citizens assist in the return of fugitive... This guide was created at Marist College. Please note that some of the resources may not be accessible to non-Marist students.

However, many of the links are from freely available websites so you may find this guide helpful. The HeinOnline resources includes the database SLAVERY IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD: HISTORY, CULTURE AND LAW. Click on the link above to get to HeinOnline--SLAVERY IN AMERICA is listed under "Browse Databases by Name." From HeinOnline "This ... collection brings together a multitude of essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

Our cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.....Much of the non-legal material in this collection is based on... Its rare book collection contains hundreds of nineteenth century pamphlets and books on slavery." Please note: You will find the special report, The Tragedy of Lynching by Arthur Drape (1933) in the HeinOnline database. (It is contained in Hein's Legal Classics Library) "This enormous collection of African American Newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first–hand reports of the major events and issues of the... The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African American experience."

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