Project volunteers have recorded over sixty remote interviews with first responders advocates for street vendors, sex workers, nail salon workers, and tenants fighting evictions mutual aid and food pantry workers poets, musicians, artists, and activists, and collected over seventy digital artifacts including flyers, videos, zines, resource lists, photographs, and artwork. Launched in 2020, this project centers Asian/Pacific/Americans as subjects of their own stories, offering space for thinking about the parallels, intimacies, and possibilities for solidarity between Asian/Pacific/Americans and the communities that are most impacted by recent seismic shifts in our history. Wagner Labor Archives, is documenting the complex and multifaceted experiences of Asian/Pacific/Americans during the pandemic with A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project. The A/P/A Institute at New York University, in collaboration with a network of academics, organizers, archivists, and artists across the country and the New York University Tamiment Library & Robert F. This project highlights the innovative leadership of Constance Baker Motley (New York University Class of 1943 and honorary member of 1985), and her work to redress racist distortions of representation among the diverse pantheon of feminist leaders and embrace the epitome of gender equity work. In the early 20th Century, women leaders of color were never recognized by the predominantly white middle-class feminist movement even though they lived by the tenants of gender equity. Revered for 20 incredible years at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Motley drafted the Brown versus Board of Education docket and successfully argued 10 Supreme Court cases, winning 9 with the 10th overturned in her favor 20 years after she argued the case. A civil rights icon, Motley was the first African American woman federal judge, the first African American woman in the New York state Senate, and the first woman elected Manhattan Borough president.
The New York University Constance Baker Motley Project aims to build greater awareness around the legacy of Constance Baker Motley.
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