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Turner, Ruby: A Living Legacy, Ruby Mckie Turner
Turner, Ruby: A Living Legacy, Ruby Mckie Turner
Oral Histories
[Turner has] chosen not to write an oral history of African Americans but, rather, one of Colored Americans through images. These images are those who were among the first freeborn generation of the Civil War, thereby placing them in the historical period of the country changing its course to admit freed former slaves.
Performance: All Our Names Were Freedom, Jessica Wilkerson, Kevin Cozart
Performance: All Our Names Were Freedom, Jessica Wilkerson, Kevin Cozart
About the Project
Students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), participated in a staged reading of All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County, a multivocal and multilayered narrative inspired by listening to the interviews recorded that semester. The event at the Spring Hill M. B. Baptist Church was attended by approximately 70 community members, UM faculty and students, and six of the interviewees.
Invisible Histories Project Comes To Mississippi, Joan Allison
Invisible Histories Project Comes To Mississippi, Joan Allison
Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection)
The University of Mississippi is now partnering with Invisible Histories Project to create [a] collection of Mississippi LGBTQ ephemera to be housed on the Ole Miss campus, and later, at additional repositories throughout the state.
Pamphlet Proofs: Invisible Histories Mississippi, Amy Mcdowell, Jessica Wilkerson
Pamphlet Proofs: Invisible Histories Mississippi, Amy Mcdowell, Jessica Wilkerson
Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection)
Color page proofs for a tri-fold brochure to introduce the Invisible History Project: Mississippi to collect both oral histories and archival materials.
Tupelo Pride 2019 Exhibit, Amy Mcdowell, Jessica Wilkerson, Maddie Shappley, David Hooper Schultz
Tupelo Pride 2019 Exhibit, Amy Mcdowell, Jessica Wilkerson, Maddie Shappley, David Hooper Schultz
Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection)
The Invisible Histories Project-Mississippi launched during Tupelo Pride 2019's opening event at the Link Centre. IHP-MS had an information table with two pop-up exhibits: a selection of record covers from the collection of DJ Prince Charles (Charles Smith), now housed in the University of Mississippi Libraries Archives and Special Collections, and a selection of "ethno-poems", curated by graduate student oral history interviewers Maddie Shappley and Hooper Schultz.
Recording Yalobusha's Black History: Phase I Begins, Dottie Chapman Reed
Recording Yalobusha's Black History: Phase I Begins, Dottie Chapman Reed
About the Project
In this article from North Mississippi Herald, October 17, 2019, Reed describes meeting the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), at the University of Mississippi.
Outstanding Women Of Yalobusha County: The Project Continues, Colton Babbitt, Brittany Brown, Keon A. Burns, Cecelia Parks, Michelle Bright, Rhondalyn K. Peairs
Outstanding Women Of Yalobusha County: The Project Continues, Colton Babbitt, Brittany Brown, Keon A. Burns, Cecelia Parks, Michelle Bright, Rhondalyn K. Peairs
About the Project
Statements from the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), preparing to collect the "untold stories" appeared in the North Mississippi Herald on October 17, 2019.
Fieldwork In Yalobusha County, Jessica Wilkerson
Fieldwork In Yalobusha County, Jessica Wilkerson
About the Project
A summary of the daytrip to Yalobusha County taken by graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements). After church services in both Water Valley and Coffeeville, the students made first connections with their interviewees.
Oral History Project: Black Families Of Yalobusha County, Jessica Wilkerson
Oral History Project: Black Families Of Yalobusha County, Jessica Wilkerson
About the Project
Document presented to persons interested in participating in the oral history project. Sections included: who we are, what is oral history?, what happens during an interview?, and contact information.
Preserving Our History To Help Us Understand The Past And Present: Launching Phase Ii, Outstanding Black Women Of Yalobusha County; From The Ole Miss Classroom To The Yalobusha Community, Dottie Chapman Reed, Jessica Wilkerson
Preserving Our History To Help Us Understand The Past And Present: Launching Phase Ii, Outstanding Black Women Of Yalobusha County; From The Ole Miss Classroom To The Yalobusha Community, Dottie Chapman Reed, Jessica Wilkerson
About the Project
Articles from North Mississippi Herald, August 22, 2019, describe the benefit of, and plans for, and oral history project to capture the stories of Black families in Yalobusha County.
Isom Fellowship Proposal: Queer Life Histories In Mississippi, Amy Mcdowell, Jessica Wilkerson
Isom Fellowship Proposal: Queer Life Histories In Mississippi, Amy Mcdowell, Jessica Wilkerson
Queer Mississippi (Complete Collection)
Research proposal submitted by Dr. Amy McDowell and Dr. Jessica Wilkerson for the Isom Fellows program, a two-year fellowship with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies funded by the Office of Provost. Isom Fellows are asked to contribute to the Isom Center through research, teaching, and service. Five fellows are selected per cohort.
The Wise Women Of Oxford, Jaz Brisack
The Wise Women Of Oxford, Jaz Brisack
Honors Theses
In Fall 2015, a group of women began meeting for lunch. The first meeting was nearly spontaneous: a woman named Eunice Benton emailed a few of her friends, saying that she would prefer to go out to eat with them at one o’clock on a Friday instead of eating alone. From there, the email list Eunice had created began growing and incorporating many new women from a variety of backgrounds, some of whom Eunice knew and then, increasingly, some she didn’t. The list spiked tremendously after the 2016 presidential election, as the group provided comfort to women who were extremely …