Event Title
All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County
Location
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
Start Date
19-2-2020 5:30 PM
Publication Date
2020
Description
During the fall semester, five students in SST 560, Oral History of Southern Social Movements, taught by Jessie Wilkerson, collaborated with Dottie Chapman Reed to develop the Black Families of Yalobusha County Oral History Project. Reed, who lives in Atlanta, is a member of the University of Mississippi Class of ’74, grew up in Water Valley, and writes the column “Outstanding Black Women of Yalobusha County” for the North Mississippi Herald. In this SouthTalk, the students of SST 560 will present a multivocal, multilayered history based on interviews from their oral history project. Dottie Chapman Reed will speak during the Summit on Women and Civic Engagement sponsored by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies earlier that day.
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Reed, Dottie Chapman; Babbitt, Colton; Bright, Michelle; Brown, Brittany; and Wilkerson, Jessie, "All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County" (2020). All In. All Year Events Calendar. 18.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/all_in/2020/events/18
All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County
Barnard Observatory, Tupelo Room
During the fall semester, five students in SST 560, Oral History of Southern Social Movements, taught by Jessie Wilkerson, collaborated with Dottie Chapman Reed to develop the Black Families of Yalobusha County Oral History Project. Reed, who lives in Atlanta, is a member of the University of Mississippi Class of ’74, grew up in Water Valley, and writes the column “Outstanding Black Women of Yalobusha County” for the North Mississippi Herald. In this SouthTalk, the students of SST 560 will present a multivocal, multilayered history based on interviews from their oral history project. Dottie Chapman Reed will speak during the Summit on Women and Civic Engagement sponsored by the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies earlier that day.