Event Type
Event
Location
Classroom 106D
Start Date
11-12-2023 1:00 PM
Description
On October 1, 1962, James Meredith made history as the first African-American student to be admitted to the then racially segregated University of Mississippi. In the weeks before and after his admission, Meredith received thousands of letters from around the world expressing support or condemnation of his actions. Today, many of these letters are housed at the University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections and have been digitized and made publicly available on eGrove, the University’s institutional repository. Adam Clemons, UM Digital Humanities and Data Visualization Librarian and Assistant Professor, and Abbie Norris-Davidson, UM Digital Initiatives Librarian and Assistant Professor, have mapped the locations from which these letters were sent and are currently organizing transcribe-a-thon events to get all of the letters transcribed. Join this session to learn more about the project and why transcribing the letters is so important. You can even transcribe a letter (and so can your students)!
Relational Format
conference proceeding
Recommended Citation
Clemons, Adam and Norris-Davidson, Abbie, "Transcribing Letters to James Meredith (Concurrent Session, Block D)" (2023). School Library Symposium. 15.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/lib_sls/2023/schedule/15
Powerpoint Slides
slide_notes.pdf (119 kB)
Slide Notes
Help us preserve history!.pdf (467 kB)
Handout
Adam Clemons CV 2023.pdf (523 kB)
Presenter 1 CV
Norris Davidson CV.pdf (323 kB)
Presenter 2 CV
Accessibility Status
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Transcribing Letters to James Meredith (Concurrent Session, Block D)
Classroom 106D
On October 1, 1962, James Meredith made history as the first African-American student to be admitted to the then racially segregated University of Mississippi. In the weeks before and after his admission, Meredith received thousands of letters from around the world expressing support or condemnation of his actions. Today, many of these letters are housed at the University of Mississippi Archives and Special Collections and have been digitized and made publicly available on eGrove, the University’s institutional repository. Adam Clemons, UM Digital Humanities and Data Visualization Librarian and Assistant Professor, and Abbie Norris-Davidson, UM Digital Initiatives Librarian and Assistant Professor, have mapped the locations from which these letters were sent and are currently organizing transcribe-a-thon events to get all of the letters transcribed. Join this session to learn more about the project and why transcribing the letters is so important. You can even transcribe a letter (and so can your students)!
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