Date: 31 December, 2023


Dataset Title: Black Bottom Archives: Oral Histories Project Spotlights Collective Vision for Reparations 


Dataset Creators: Marcia Black, Lex Draper Garcia


Dataset Contact: mblack@blackbottomarchives.com


Funding: The Michigan–Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis


Research Overview:
Black Bottom Archives (BBA) is a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters through digital storytelling, journalism, art, and community organizing with a focus on preserving local Black history & archiving our present.

Black Bottom Archives Presents: Sankofa Community Research (SCR) is a Black Detroiter led, year-long community research project in partnership with Detroit Peoples Platform and academic partners at the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, and Wayne State University to collect oral histories and conduct historical research to document the multi-generational impact of the destruction of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley on Black Detroiters; and to explore Black Detroiters collective vision for reparations as part of the 'I-375 Reconnecting Communities Project.'

Bringing together oral histories, census records, business records, historic maps, and other sources, we will examine how displacement impacted people, businesses, cultural centers, environment, public space, and infrastructure and produce a community report that presents evidence of impact and proposes reparative actions. 

More information about Black Bottom Archives can be found at https://www.blackbottomarchives.com/.


Methodology:
The data in this deposit are primarily photos (JPEG) and videos (MP4) documenting the oral histories. A representative set of items were posted to the Egalitarian Metropolis site (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/egalitarianmetropolis/).


Instrument and/or Software specifications: NA


Folders contained here:
-Black Bottom Archives.zip
	> Materials On Web.zip contains the images, videos, and text of the Black Bottom 		Archives project page on the Egalitarian Metropolis website. 
	> Oral Histories.zip contains the video of the oral histories and their corresponding 		transcripts. 
	> Sanofka Teach In (9/12/23).zip contains images of a community event organized by Black 	Bottom Archives. 
-BlackBottomArchives_EgalitarianMetropolis.html - HTML capture of project page from Egalitarian Metropolis site
-BlackBottomArchives.html -  HTML capture of linked project page on Black Bottom Archive site (destination page of "Black Bottom Archives" button on Egalitarian Metropolis project page)


Use and Access: 
This data set is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license (CC BY-NC 4.0).


To Cite Data: 
Black, M., Draper Garcia, L. (2024). Black Bottom Archives: Oral Histories Project Spotlights Collective Vision for Reparations [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/0tdm-ac73