Fortunately, the Internet Archive’s founder, Brewster Kahle, was enthusiastic about sponsoring the event from the get-go. He has always been about building working code, testing it in the wild, making tools that are useful for people. So a week-long event anchored at the Internet Archive, dedicated to deepening our understanding of what remains t

THE PRECEDENT: The inspiration and format of the DWeb Seminar comes directly from Professor Christian Tschudin’s P2P Basel, the annual workshop he runs at the University of Basel for offline-first, P2P researchers and protocol builders in Europe. Over the course of five P2P Basel annual gatherings, Christian and his associate research director, E

During its run, Maurice highlighted interviews in 1998 with the family of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, Sr. as most memorable and important. Dahmer was murdered in 1966 on orders of the Ku Klux Klan after gaining attention for helping Black Mississippians vote. At the time of the first interview in February 1998, stalled justice was being re-e

In a follow-up interview in September 1998, Maurice spoke with the family after the August conviction and sentencing of the man responsible for the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Sr. thirty-two years after the event.  Reflecting on the recent trial and what was different from 1966, Mrs. Ellie Dahmer, Vernon Dahmer, Sr.’s widow said, “The climate

HCLS partnered with Maurice Singleton on related projects, including an oral history interview in April. Once complete, the audio recording and transcript will join this digital collection and provide additional context and nuance. We also held a public program in May to spotlight and celebrate the collection. Maurice spoke to the community about h