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The first African American men to serve on Mississippi’s state legislature during and immediately after Reconstruction are showcased in a Mississippi State online exhibit.
Titled “Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi,” the exhibit documents the lives of over 150 African American men who worked in the state legislature leading up to 1894. The site features more than 800 newspaper clippings, dozens of portraits, quotes from primary and secondary sources, and biographies. Created by DeeDee Baldwin, an MSU Libraries assistant professor, it is accessible at Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries.
As a hobby, Baldwin, a history research librarian, contributes to websites that help document cemeteries by uploading pictures of gravestones. Her interest in this project was sparked in a predominantly African American cemetery in Macon several years ago when she discovered the grave of Isham Stewart, a man born in 1810—which she notes “is old for an African American headstone in the South.”
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That's really cool.
Titled “Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi,” the exhibit documents the lives of over 150 African American men who worked in the state legislature leading up to 1894. The site features more than 800 newspaper clippings, dozens of portraits, quotes from primary and secondary sources, and biographies. Created by DeeDee Baldwin, an MSU Libraries assistant professor, it is accessible at Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi · Mississippi State University Libraries.
As a hobby, Baldwin, a history research librarian, contributes to websites that help document cemeteries by uploading pictures of gravestones. Her interest in this project was sparked in a predominantly African American cemetery in Macon several years ago when she discovered the grave of Isham Stewart, a man born in 1810—which she notes “is old for an African American headstone in the South.”
MSU Libraries documents African American legislators in Mississippi with historical, online ‘Against All Odds’ exhibit
The first African American men to serve on Mississippi’s state legislature during and immediately after Reconstruction are showcased in a Mississippi State online exhibit.
That's really cool.
