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Collected by: Lawrence Public Library - Kansas

Archived since: Oct, 2018

Description:

This collection archives projects documenting the history of Lawrence (Kan.), including oral history interviews and Twitter threads.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Spontaneous Events

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Title: Lawrence/Douglas County, Kansas African American Oral History Interviews

URL: http://oralhistory.lplks.org/index.html

Description: A collection of interviews conducted with African American residents of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kansas. Interviews were conducted over the course of 28 years, initially by Curtis Nether and Linda Poindexter and in subsequent years by the Lawrence-Douglas County African American Oral History Project under the leadership of Alice Fowler, Leonard Monroe, and Marla Jackson.

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Subject:   Lawrence (Kan.)--History. African Americans--Civil rights--Kansas Oral history

Title: Leo Beuerman

URL: http://uss-rangerguy.com/Lawrence/Leo_Beuerman.htm

Description: An early web (HTML) page containing auto/biographical information and photographs of Leo Beuerman, who lived from 1902 to 1974, sold pencils on Massachusetts Street, and was the subject of an Academy-award nominated documentary. Beuerman was a dwarf and was unable to walk.

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Subject:   Lawrence (Kan.)--History--20th century. Dwarfism

Title: Twitter Coverage of Lawrence (Kan.) Protest

URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/NicoleAsbury/status/1267260546816114689/

Description: Twitter coverage by Nicole Asbury, editor-in-chief of the University Daily Kansan (student newspaper, University of Kansas), of a May 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Lawrence (Ks.).

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement. Lawrence (Kan.). Protest and social movements.

Title: Twitter Coverage of Lawrence (Ks.) Protest

URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/lucyepeterson/

Description: Twitter coverage by Lucy Peterson, senior reporter for the University Daily Kansan (student newspaper, University of Kansas), of a May 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Lawrence (Ks.).

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement. Lawrence (Kan.). Protest and social movements.

Title: QR1863: A public list by 1863Lawrence

URL: https://twitter.com/1863Lawrence/lists/qr1863/

Description: A "live tweeting" historical reenactment of Quantrill's Raid (1863).

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Subject:   Historical reenactments. Quantrill's Raid (Lawrence, Kan.), 1863. Twitter.

Title: Twitter Coverage of Lawrence (Ks.) Protest

URL: https://twitter.com/MelissaStiehler/status/1267267232020795392/

Description: Coverage from Melissa Stiehler's personal Twitter account of a Black Lives Matter protest in Lawrence (Ks.) in May 2020.

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement. Lawrence (Kan.). Protest and social movements.

Title: Twitter Coverage of Lawrence (Ks.) Protest

URL: https://twitter.com/TheDirtWitch/status/1277724115139547137/

Description: Twitter coverage of a May 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Lawrence (Ks.) by Lawrence resident Kris Jade.

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement. Lawrence (Kan.). Protest and social movements.

Title: QR1863: A public list by 1863Lawrence

URL: https://twitter.com/hashtag/QR1863?src=hash/

Description: A "live tweeting" historical reenactment of Quantrill's Raid (1863).

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Subject:   Twitter. Quantrill's Raid (Lawrence, Kan.), 1863. Historical reenactments.

Title: Twitter Coverage of Lawrence (Ks.) Protest

URL: https://twitter.com/kprkoranda/

Description: Twitter coverage by Stephen Koranda, KPR Statehouse Bureau Chief, of a May 2020 Black Lives Matter protest in Lawrence (Ks.).

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement. Lawrence (Kan.). Protest and social movements.

Title: Twitter Coverage of Lawrence (Ks.) Protest

URL: https://twitter.com/mclarknews/

Description: Twitter coverage by Mackenzie Clark, public safety reporter for the Lawrence-Journal World, of a Black Lives Matter protest in Lawrence (Ks.) in May 2020.

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Subject:   Black lives matter movement. Lawrence (Kan.). Protest and social movements.

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