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This site is a component of the public history project, Kipp Dawson: The Struggle is the Victory. "Wearing the Movement" features t-shirts from the extensive collection of Kipp Dawson (1945- ), an activist, coal miner, and educator who organized on the frontlines of nearly every major freedom struggle since the 1950s. Dawson’s collection includes shirts from the movements that she helped to lead as well as those she wore in solidarity with others around the world. Her impressive career spanned the Civil Rights Movement, free speech movement, Vietnam anti-war movement, women’s movement, gay liberation movement, labor movement, and education justice movement.
The t-shirts in “Wearing the Movement” were scanned by the University of Pittsburgh Library System, and most will be accessioned into the Kipp M. Dawson Papers (AIS.2022.10) in their Archives & Special Collections.
Authors: Catherine A. Evans, Carnegie Mellon University, and Jessie B. Ramey, Ph.D., Chatham University.
Technology and Design: Sara Palmer, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, Emory University.
To cite this page or provide attribution to the “Wearing the Movement" portion of this project, we recommend you use the following:
MLA Style: “Wearing the Movement," in Kipp Dawson: The Struggle is the Victory. Catherine A. Evans and Jessie B. Ramey. Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, 2025. https://kippdawson.com. Accessed [day-month-year].
Chicago Manual of Style: Catherine A. Evans and Jessie B. Ramey, “Wearing the Movement," in Kipp Dawson: The Struggle is the Victory, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, 2023, accessed [date], https://kippdawson.com