created equal: civil rights outreach @ mississippi academic libraries

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Sheeji Kathuria and Hillary Richardson

Mississippi State University Libraries

MSU Libraries

and

African American Studies

Promotion

Assessment

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Since Created Equal

• Enhance our digital collections

• AAS 3043, Modern Civil Rights

Law class

• Starkville Civil Rights project

•Freedom Summer Conference

•Civil Rights Research @ MSU

•MSU Libraries and African American Studies Relationship

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Shugana Williams

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College

coastal connections

www.blog.al.com

www.usa.gov on flickr

William Newell Collection

Mississippi Digital Library

National Geographic

www.usa.gov on flickr

www.usagov on flickr

www.usa.gov on flickr

Created Equal Film Selections USM Gulf Coast

Slavery by Another Name spans eight decades,

from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in

both the South and the North that enabled this

“neoslavery” to begin and persist.

Our presenters

Dr. Emily Clark

Tulane

University

Dr. Kern Jackson

University of

South Alabama

Dr. James Pat Smith

Southern Miss

Changing America exhibition

National

Endowment for the

Humanities

American Library

Association

Public Programs Office

Smithsonian’s National

Museum of

African American History &

Culture

National Museum of

American History

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Changing America public programs

• History of the Seafood Industry by Dr. Deanne Nuwer, Southern Miss

• Integrating the Military: African-Americans, Women, and Gays by Douglas Bristol, Southern Miss

• African-American Genealogy Workshop by Anne Anderson and Joyce Griffith of the Ocean Springs Genealogical Society

• Poetry Reading

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• University Communications

• Mississippi Gulf Coast Tourism website

• Mississippi Public Broadcast weekend announcements

• Media Outlets: • Sun Herald Newspaper

• Sea Coast Echo

• Mississippi Public Broadcasting

• WLOX

• WXXV Fox

local partnersChanging America exhibition & Created Equal film series

• Southern Miss Gulf Coast Libraries

• Evelyn Gandy Cultural Center

• Long Beach Biloxi Library

• Biloxi Public Library

• College of Arts & Letters at Southern Miss

• Student Government Association at Southern Miss Gulf Coast

• Think Center at Southern Miss Gulf Coast

overviewChanging America exhibition & Created Equal film series

• Mistakes• Time

• Other programs in the community

• Lectures were held during the day

• Relationship with faculty (E-mail doesn’t work)

• Good stuff• Publicity

• Conversations

• Revealed local history

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Melissa Dennis, University of Mississippi Libraries

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Local Partners

Lafayette County and OxfordPublic Library

William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation

Center for the Study of Southern Culture

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Freedom Summer

Learn more about Created Equal

Questions?

Melissa Dennis mdennis@olemiss.edu

Sheeji Kathuria skathuria@library.msstate.edu

Hillary A. H. Richardson hrichardson@library.msstate.edu

Shugana Williams shugana.williams@mgccc.edu