Humanities Truck Community Archive

The Downtown Displaced project involved an extensive collaboration between the Humanities Truck, Dan Kerr and students from his Engaged Community History course, and the Street Sense Media Filmmakers Cooperative. This collection contains photos from planning and creation of the Downtown Displaced: A Case Study of Gentrification in Mount Vernon Square, 1840-Present exhibit, for which Dan Kerr's Engaged Community History class collaborated with Street Sense Media artists during the Spring 2019 academic semester. The exhibit explores the social costs of neighborhood change in a long temporal context. Collection also contains photos from May 20, 2019, when the exhibit was presented to the Street Sense Media collaborators. In June, the filmmakers co-op did a performance at the Carnegie Library, which drew upon this research.