Brooklyn Resists

Brooklyn Resists is the first major Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History project since its creation last year and made in response to the outcry for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless Black Americans murdered by police and anti-Black violence. This exhibition will be projected on the exterior of the building and will tell the stories of Black resistance in Brooklyn from the beginning of the Civil Rights movement to today using historic texts and images and photos from the 2020 protests. There will also be an open call for images to be placed on the online version of the installation, where the Brooklyn community to add their personal, lived experiences, histories, and stories to CBH’s collections of photography, oral histories, and ephemera documenting the movement in Brooklyn.