Youth Takeover Day: Jimi Hendrix’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” Live at Woodstock, Jacob Riis, and Frances Perkins

Today is Youth Takeover Day, a day to celebrate and uplift youth leadership, spark conversation, and help shape what comes next.

We’ve invited three youth leaders from Made By Us to bring you these three videos. Made By Us a nonpartisan, not-for-profit network connecting hundreds of museums, historic sites, libraries and archives with younger generations. Enjoy!

Jimi Hendrix’s “The Star-Spangled Banner” Live at Woodstock, Narrated by Justice Brown

Justice Brown is a Youth250 Bureau member at Made By Us, the national network connecting young adults to history and civic life through more than 750 museums, historic sites, libraries, and archives. Brown discusses the powerful rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that Jimi Hendrix performed at his closing Woodstock set.

Jacob Riis, Narrated by Alex Edgar

Alex Edgar is the Youth Engagement Manager at Made By Us, where he leads Youth250, the national effort to include youth voices in America’s past, present and future story. Edgar profiles Jacob Riis, the immigrant journalist and photographer whose unflinching images of New York's tenements pioneered the use of photography for social reform.

Frances Perkins, Narrated by Cameron Katz

Cameron Katz is the Head of Content + Partnerships at Made By Us, the national network connecting young adults to history and civic life through more than 750 museums, historic sites, libraries, and archives. Katz honors Frances Perkins, the labor secretary whose response to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire led to Social Security, the minimum wage, and the forty-hour work week.