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Subject Files

An archival collection at the Margaret Walker Center documenting historic preservation and Black history in Mississippi.

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Overview

About the Collection

Extent: 217 linear feet.

Topics include historic preservation, Black Studies, Black History Month, Piney Woods School, Farish Street, Black Churches, Smith Robertson Museum, African-American Historic Presentation, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.

Contents

Categories

Subject File 01
Mississippi Academic Historic Preservation Organizations
Subject File 02
Mississippi Associations, Centers, and Departments related to historic preservation
Subject File 03
Mississippi Historic Preservation Efforts
Subject File 04
Mississippi Historic Sites, including a special collection on the Farish Street Historic District
Subject File 05
Black Historic Sites
Subject File 06
Black Preservation Efforts
Subject File 07
Black Preservation: Federal Agencies, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the U.S. Department of Housing, and the U.S. Department of the Interior (National Park Service)
Subject File 08
Black Preservation Organizations, including associations, churches, centers and institutes, foundations, and non-profit organizations involved in black historic preservation
Subject File 09
Black Preservation Resources: Academic
Subject File 10
Black Preservation Resources: Individuals and Organizations
Subject File 11
International Preservation Resources
Subject File 12
Preservation Periodicals
Subject File 13
Preservation Studies and Affairs
Subject File 14
Black History, including a focus on oral history associations, projects, centers, methodology, and sources.
Subject File 15
History Courses, containing a collection of class materials and student papers, projects, and theses from Dr. Alferdteen Harrison’s tenure as a professor of history at Jackson State University.
Recognition

Affiliations & Memberships

A graphic with a white background contains a variety of different logos of different styles. The text of the logos reads: African American Civil Rights Network; Association of African American Museums Institutional Member; American Writers Museum Affiliate; Catherine Coleman Literary Arts, Food, & Justice; Participating Member Distinctive Destinations National Trust for Historic Preservation; Mellon Foundation.
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LOCATION

Ayer Hall
1400 J.R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17008
Jackson, MS 39217
College of Liberal Arts, Jackson State University
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