On Juneteenth—19 June, the now official federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the US—the Center for Brooklyn History (CBH) is launching an initiative that explores the past and present history of racial protest in the New York City borough, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Black Lives Matter era.
Brooklyn Resists is a hybrid series of in-person and online installations and programmes that draw on the centre’s collection, which contains thousands of pieces, including archival items related to the abolitionist movement in Brooklyn, and ephemera connected to notable Brooklyn-based activists. It also includes contemporary images and objects, some of which were crowd-sourced from the community as protests erupted last year, following the police killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans. Photographs from the collection will be projected onto the façade of the CBH building on Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights on the project’s opening night.
The initiative also includes a new commission by the artist Chloë Bass, The Parts. The installation, originally created on Instagram, involves images and personal texts by the artist that reflect on the events of the past year, which will be displayed on the exterior of the Brooklyn Central Library at Grand Army Plaza, and across from the CBH building.
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