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Project Details
"Against All Odds" tells the stories of the first African American men - over 150 in all - to serve as Mississippi's state and national legislators. Features photographs, short biographies, quoted excerpts from primary and secondary sources, and almost 1000 fully transcribed and cross-linked newspaper clippings and other documents. This is an ongoing research project.
Subjects or Themes
African American, Mississippi, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Project Language(s)
English
Time Period
Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Images, Text
Target Audience(s)
Creators
DeeDee Baldwin
Year(s)
2018-present
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
Mississippi State University
Software Employed
Labor and Support
The site represents many months of searching records and newspapers, saving and uploading newspaper clippings to both Wordpress and the library's Omeka mirror site, transcribing every newspaper clipping, cross-linking names, writing biographical information, adding metadata to the Omeka site, etc.
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
The site is also available as an Omeka digital exhibit for Mississippi State University Libraries (http://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/exhibits/show/legislators)