This website (and maybe a physical location one day) is a repository of objects (or photographs of objects) and testimonials and autobiographical, personal, accounts, and memories that tell the broader story of the human rights movement.
There is no clear or discernible narrative thread to this story, as it is told here. Instead, this is jumbled, fragmented, arbitrary, and inexhaustive collection of bits and pieces of something bigger.
We collect random but relevant things that people (mostly my friends and colleagues) decide to send me. There is no rigorous collection methodology or well-thought-out guidelines.
Still, I hope you find it interesting.
Pol Pot's pot
Louis Bickford
I found this ...
Nelson Mandela Commemorative Plate
Louis Bickford
Individuals can be vitally important . Usually they need organizations to achieve change.
My first visit to South Africa was for a conference on Robben Island... I made about 30 trips over the years
Arthur Miller gift to Pepe Zalaquett, which he then gave to me
Louis Bickford
Zalaquett was a mentor, friend, and good backgammon player
Stalin candles
Louis Bickford
I picked these up in Budapest
My friend Sarah Mendelsohn got mad at me: "would you have a little representation of Hitler?"
Gift from the Prime Minister in Exile of Burma
We met in a nondescript roadside hotel near Washington
Designing TJ strategies
Human Teeth - Choeung Ek
I did not keep them
The guide gave them to me
BLM covid mask
Two different world-shaking events at the same time
The movement for black lives exploded after George Floyd's murder, in the middle of the pandemic
