ArchCity Defenders and Action St. Louis present the premiere collaborative podcast, "Under The Arch." Your hosts Blake Strode, Executive Director of ArchCity Defenders, and Kayla Reed, Director of Action St. Louis, explore the issues facing our community and the people working to transform them.
We're launching Season Two with a focus on Black History Month, celebrating Black Now, Black History, and Black Art. This week's episode features Gwen Moore, Curator of Urban Landscape and Community Identity at the Missouri History Museum. She has been associated with the Missouri Historical Society since 1998 as a researcher, community programmer, and oral historian. She focuses on social movements and civil rights activism, including a collecting initiative and oral history documenting the Ferguson protest movement. She has curated collections such as “St. Louis Freedom Struggle 1921-1968” and “#1 in Civil Rights: The African American Freedom Struggle in St. Louis.” She has a BA in sociology and history from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, an MSW from Washington University, and MA and degree in history from Indiana University where she worked at the Organization of American Historians as a book editor for the OAH Magazine of History.
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Interested in Ms. Moore's reading recommendations? Here are a few ideas:
Gordon, Colin. Mapping Decline. Penn Press, 2008.
Irvin, Keona. Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis. University Press of Kentucky, 2017.
Jolly, Kenneth. Black Liberation in the Midwest: The Struggle in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970. New York and London: Routledge
Jolly, Kenneth. “It Happened Here Too: The Black Liberation Movement in St. Louis, Missouri, 1964-1970” PhD. Diss. University of Mo. Colombia 2003.
Jolly, Kenneth. “The Fairgrounds Park incident and the Jefferson Bank Campaign: A comparative Study of Violence in St. Louis Missouri, 1949-1964” Thesis. University of Missouri-Columbia, 1999.
Lang, Clarence. Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75.
