Miscellaneous – Against All Odds

Virtual Cemetery on Find A Grave – pay virtual visits to the known gravesites of Mississippi’s first Black legislators. Am I missing one? Please let me know.

Library of Congress authority records – ongoing project with my colleague, Lauren Geiger

Reference & User Services Association, History Section – Genealogy/History Achievement Award (2021). “The recipient shall be selected for exceptional accomplishment in one or more of the following areas: leadership; service; training; reference; or publication of recent, significant print or digital reference works/projects that offer access to genealogical or historical sources.”
Popular Culture Association – Allen Ellis Digital Research Award in Popular Culture, honorable mention (2021). “This award recognizes the outstanding contribution of an academic database to the study of Popular Culture and American Culture developed within the past three years.”

Video: Presentation at Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s “History is Lunch” program, held at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (Sep 9, 2020) – since this presentation, the site has grown from 120+ to 150+ information pages to cover the years beyond Reconstruction until 1894
Video: “Cultural Conversations” program for MSU Libraries (Oct 5, 2020)
Article: “MSU Libraries Documents African American Legislators in Mississippi with Online “Against All Odds” Exhibit” (Dec 8, 2020)
Video: Against All Odds: Telling the Stories of the First Black Legislators in Mississippi – conversation with site creator DeeDee Baldwin, Albright descendant Karen Burch, and Handy descendant Bianca Ford for the Society of Mississippi Archivists’ Virtual Table Talks program (May 21, 2021)
Article: Against All Odds in Reviews in Digital Humanities – reviewed by Dr. Kimber Thomas of UNC Chapel Hill (June 2021)
Video: The Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Black Histories – Association for Documentary Editors conference panel that includes site creator DeeDee Baldwin (July 27, 2021)