Julie Herrada is the Curator of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan Library, where she collects, manages, and provides access to holdings related to international social protest movements. She has worked with the collection since 1994, first as the Assistant Curator and as Curator since the year 2000. She holds a Masters in Library Science with a Certificate in Archival Administration from Wayne State University.

Marches, rallies, riots! Demonstrations, protests, boycotts, and pickets! SNCC, CORE, SDS, Weatherman, the Chicago 8 conspiracy trial, Tom Hayden’s FBI surveillance files! Where would you go to see the artifacts of these events? Right in your own backyard, that’s where! Enjoy this curator’s introduction to one of the foremost research libraries, documenting social protest movements and the stories about some of the people involved, from the 19th century to the present.

This is the fifth of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Library – Civilization’s Treasure House of Knowledge. The next lecture in the series will be March 30. The Subject is ANDREW CARNEGIE’S LEGACY IS NOT STEEL