Margaret Walker Center · Collections
Subject Files
An archival collection at the Margaret Walker Center documenting historic preservation and Black history in Mississippi.
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.
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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
1400 J.R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17008
Jackson, MS 39217
College of Liberal Arts, Jackson State University
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