University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA 90089-0012)
Deborah Ann Holmes-Wong (Project Director: July 2015 to March 2021)
Giao Luong Baker (Co Project Director: June 2016 to January 2019)
R. Wayne Shoaf (Co Project Director: February 2019 to March 2021)
PW-234844-16
Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$200,000 (approved)
$196,961 (awarded)
Grant period:
7/1/2016 – 6/30/2019
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The Fire Last Time: Digitizing the Independent and Webster Commission Records on the 1992 L.A. Civil Unrest
Digitization of 182,264 pages of archival records and 291 hours of audiovisual recordings of the Independent and Webster Commissions, convened to investigate the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles.
Our project will digitize for free online public access the records of the Independent and Webster Commissions, which investigated the causes of the 1991 Rodney King beating and the 1992 civil unrest. Upon its conclusion, we will publish 182,264 pages of historical records and 291 hours of audiovisual recordings in the USC Digital Library and the Digital Public Library of America.
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