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After Tuesday's election, Los Angeles County will make history with an all-female Board of Supervisors. https://www.latimes.com//l-a-county-makes-history-with-all We're home to the papers of Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, who in 1979 blazed a trail as the first woman to serve on the board: https://news.usc.edu//preserving-the-records-of-a-public-/ (Pictured: Burke celebrating her first anniversary on the Board of Supervisors in 1980. Library Exhibits Collection, USC Digital Library)

This poster pairs an image from a protest against Anita Bryant in 1978 at the Dupont Circle Fountain in Washington, DC, with the text our time has comegay vote ’78. The poster was sponsored by the Gay Activists Alliance of Washington, DC, who also organized the protest, and the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club. The photograph and the text allude to the anti-homosexual campaign Save Our Children, launched by Bryant in Dade County, Florida, to counter an ordinance that prohi...bited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. Bryant then helped repeal similar anti-discrimination laws in St. Paul, Minnesota; Eugene, Oregon; and Wichita, Kansas. California's Briggs Initiative (Proposition 6), which aimed to ban gays and lesbians from working in public schools, came at this same time but failed. Bryant’s campaign and those that followed across the country galvanized not only the religious right but also the gay liberation movementas their rights and the rights of those they loved were on the ballot. Tomorrow is Election Day 2020, although millions have already voted. Much like in 1978, issues on the ballot include LGBTQ rights and those of other marginalized groups. And now, as then, we must fight against bigotry, homophobia, sexism, racism, classism, ableism with our voices and our votes. This post was written by Alexis Bard Johnson, curator at the ONE Archives at USC Libraries. The #ONEOutFront project was made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources' Digitizing Hidden Collections program.

On Wednesday, 11/18, the ONE Archives at USC Libraries host the second installment in their Remote Intimacies series of new and experimental performances created specifically for online viewing. Following a screening of his video work "Vital Response," artist Joseph Liatela will be in conversation with curator Jeanne Vaccaro.

Next week, with final exams approaching, we co-host a series of virtual Pomodoro study sessions for USC students. Register online: http://bit.ly/uscstudycafe.

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We've extended the deadline for our Information Literacy Course Enhancement Grants to 11/6. All @USC faculty or graduate students who teach at least one course during the current or upcoming academic year are eligible to apply.

Next Monday, Nov. 2, join us in celebrating Día de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with a screening of a new documentary on the life and work of José Guadalupe Posada, the "father of Mexican printmaking." Register here: https://usc.zoom.us///tJUqduutpj4iE9Bc9XBDfWQO-SBnDSOzyxC- Our Day of the Dead research guide: https://libguides.usc.edu/dayofthedead

We're collecting records of the COVID-19 pandemic from the Trojan Family and communities across Southern California.

#ONEOutFront: Inspired by the West Coast Lesbian Feminists conference held in 1973, two women from the Lansing Area Lesbian Feminists set out to organize their own Midwest Lesbian Conference in May of the following year. The conference and music festival (not to be confused with the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival founded two years later) took place at Michigan State University and over 200 women attended the 3-day event. The conference included workshops related to health an...d wellness, legal issues, social spaces, parenting, and Black lesbian women. This conference was also the impetus for the creation of Lesbian Connection, a magazine described as the free worldwide forum of news, ideas and information for, by and about lesbians. The conference organizers worked with women’s groups from several different states to gather resources, support, presenters, and attendees. They found it difficult to promote the conference and their frustration led to the free, bimonthly magazine still in publication today. This poster from our ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives was designed by artists from the Women’s Graphics Collective, a group that worked in conjunction with the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union. This poster was digitized thanks to a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). This post was written by archivist Loni Shibuyama of the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.

Our librarians have suggested some scholarly resources to help USC students, faculty, and staff explore topics raised at last night's presidential debate. #Election2020

While digitizing the records of a Jewish women's club as part of an National Endowment for the Humanities-supported project, this thank you letter from Martin Luther King Jr. caught our eye.

Our newly announced Floyd Covington Fellowship aims to further integrate our primary source collections on anti-racism, social justice, and allied topics into USC faculty's instruction and research. The fellowship is named after longtime Los Angeles civil rights leader Floyd Covington (pictured here), whose papers we recently acquired.

A current (and growing) list of digital knowledge projects, created by library faculty and staff, that draw upon our diverse and unique collections. Many were created in cross-campus collaboration with students and instructors across the University of Southern California.