The Preserve Black Philadelphia Project
Preserve Black Philadelphia is a community-rooted pilot program led by Friends of the Tanner House, in partnership with Memory Workers' Guild and Primary Source Archive. Across six preservation days this fall at Philly Black Worker Project and Hakim's Bookstore & Gift Shop we’ll help you digitize your memories.
Through a series of public preservation days with the historic Hakim’s Bookstore & Gift Shop and the emergent Philly Black Worker Project, community members can practice using archival tools to document, digitize, and steward their stories on their own terms, honoring privacy, consent, and self-determination.
Lessons from these engagements will inform the publication of a freely-available resource guide for current and upcoming generations of preservationists, family historians, and memory workers emboldening them in remembering our histories as necessary to advancing thriving futures.
Reserve Your Space at an Upcoming Preservation Day!
This is a sign up form to reserve a 30 minute preservation day slot to document, digitize, and steward your stories. While walk-ins are always welcome, telling us ahead of time helps us cut down on wait time.
Hakim’s Bookstore & Gift Shop
210 S 52nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19139
September 19 / 12–3pm
October 3 / 12–3pm
October 23 / 3–6pm
Philly Black Worker Project
1632 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19121
September 12 / 12–3pm
September 25 / 3–6pm
September 26 / 12–3pm
Project Partners
Primary Source Archive is an organization building memory infrastructure that enables collective memory to power movements for change. Memory infrastructure includes systems, tools, and practices that are rooted in communities, secure, and connected. We believe our stories and memories hold power. Whoever controls them shapes what’s remembered about our lives and what decisions shape our futures.
Memory Workers’ Guild is a decentralized collective of friends, peers, and community members dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and production of Black cultural legacies, experiences, and memories. The Guild exists to create a better present and future for the legacies of Black cultural workers that are often buried behind the nature of our care.