This month’s cover features a photograph of a group of marchers with the banner “Black and White together” walking to the memorial service held at the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond on April 4, 1969, the one-year anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. The image is part of the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries Richmond Police Surveillance Collection.

With support from a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk Grant, the VCU Libraries are working to preserve and provide access to 156 films and 13 audio reels from the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department (RPD) Surveillance Records (1961–1973). The films include footage of Black Panther Party meetings and activities in the 1960s; anti-draft, anti-war, and anti-busing protests; student protests at local universities; marches including the Poor People’s Campaign; and the trial of H. Rap Brown. Learn more at https://www.library.vcu.edu/about/news/2024-news/grant-will-preserve-richmond-civil-rights-era-films.html.