About Me
Anali Matthew (she/her) is an Economics and Music double major. She is a rising senior at Gettysburg College. Throughout her college career, she has been interested in children’s rights and brought that to her Digital Humanities work. Her hobbies are painting, reading, and kayaking.
This Website
This website is meant to look at the world that was surrounding children during the Civil Rights Movement. The hope is that this will help us as a society better sympathizes with their experiences and traumas from the horrors of racism in the U.S. Remembering the children as innocent victims of the violence of racism will help these experiences resonate.
Inception
This project began as a research paper in Dr. Marta Robertson‘s Musicology class in Fall 2021. The paper explored the music education of children that motivated their activism. In the summer of 2022, Anali’s project was chosen by the Fortenbaugh Fellowship to continue the “What about the Children?” as a digital humanities project. Given the additional time and resources, the project grew into a larger investigation of culture, racism, and protests in the United States. The website scope stretched to explore the timeframe from Slavery to Current events related to racial civil rights. However, the focus of the project remained on children of the Civil Rights Movement.
Design
The website is meant to be an educational resource about White and Black children’s experiences during the Civil Rights movement. The website itself was constructed using, WordPress and TimelineJs. Its wireframe was also inspired by the “Path” functionalities of Scalar.
Fortenbaugh Fellowship
Special thanks to:
R.C. Miessler (he/him) | Systems and Digital Initiatives Librarian
Mary Elmquist (she/they) | Scholarly Communications Librarian, Librarian Buddy
Kevin Moore (he/him) | Research, Instruction, and Online Learning Librarian
Dr. Marta Robertson (she/her) | Musicologist Professor
The Fortenbaugh Fellows of 2022, was an eight-week long Digital humanities research fellowship. The Fellows were a cohort of three undergraduate students who worked together and individually on digital humanities projects. The cohort Fellows were Mav Schmidt (they/them) ’24, Alyssa Gruneberg (she/her) ’24, and Anali Matthew ’23.
I would like to especially thank Mav Schmidt and Alyssa Gruneberg. Their friendship and support during the fellowship. We did it! I would also like to thank Mary Elmquist, who was my librarian buddy during the Fellowship, for their guidance and encouragement.
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