{"id":18,"date":"2018-07-09T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-03-01T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:28:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects &#038; Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/making-their-mark\/\"><strong>Making Their Mark<\/strong><\/a> project to install historical markers for the AAO legislators across Mississippi, accompanied by community programming, part of Monument Lab&#8217;s 2026 Re:Generation Cohort<\/p>\n<p>Access <strong>genealogical information<\/strong> and hundreds of attached sources on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancestry.com\/family-tree\/tree\/206884179\/recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ancestry.com<\/a> (requires subscription) or <a href=\"https:\/\/gw.geneanet.org\/edeainfj_w?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geneanet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tracking all the legislators on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1TmDNnqWwqKCHQRNI8Gfegn8nIdLW8Fv0CF7vueAYMl8\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>federal census<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; highlighted names are those I have been unable to positively identify on any census, mostly due to common names and\/or relocations<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/virtual-cemetery\/1344684?page=1#sr-47723908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Virtual Cemetery<\/strong> on Find A Grave<\/a> &#8211; pay virtual visits to the known gravesites of Mississippi&#8217;s first Black legislators. Am I missing one? Please <a href=\"mailto:dbaldwin@library.msstate.edu\">let me know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/signatures\/\"><strong>legislators&#8217; signatures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/whos-that-woman\/\">&#8220;Who&#8217;s that <strong>woman<\/strong>?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 1873 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/the-1873-civil-rights-bill\/\">civil rights law<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dms.lbo.ms.gov\/LegislationPortal\/lbo.py?RequestType=GetDoc&amp;DocID=87164&amp;UserName=WebUser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SR 120 (2025)<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; Mississippi Senate resolution commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/clinton-massacre-150th-anniversary-commemoration\/\">The <strong>Clinton Massacre<\/strong> 150th anniversary commemoration events<\/a>, held September 4-6 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1QW2Izsr3bTlq08sDlj7vAfJRgaBYu3Ec\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Class files<\/strong><\/a> for &#8220;Radical Courage: Black Legislators in Mississippi&#8217;s Reconstruction Legislature,&#8221; a course I taught for the Mississippi Governor&#8217;s School program in June 2022-2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/lc-authority-records\/\">Library of Congress <strong>authority records<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/wikidata-links\/\">Links to <strong>Wikidata pages<\/strong><\/a> for each legislator<\/p>\n<p>This site is a proud supporter of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/themsms.org\/8th-of-may-emancipation-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration<\/a><\/strong> program, which often features legislators Robert Gleed and Jesse Freeman Boulden<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Recognition<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mississippi Historical Society &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdah.ms.gov\/news\/mississippi-historical-society-awards-projects-across-state-during-annual-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Award of Merit<\/a> (2025)<\/li>\n<li>Reference &amp; User Services Association, History Section &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/rusaupdate.org\/2021\/03\/deedee-baldwin-assistant-professor-history-research-librarian-mississippi-state-university-libraries-chosen-for-hs-genealogy-history-achievement-award-sponsored-by-proquest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genealogy\/History Achievement Award<\/a> (2021). &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Popular Culture Association &#8211; Allen Ellis Digital Research Award in Popular Culture, honorable mention (2021). &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Talks &amp; Press<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qVt1TPiOdWc&amp;feature=emb_title\">Presentation at Mississippi Department of Archives and History&#8217;s &#8220;History is Lunch&#8221; program, held at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum<\/a> (Sep 9, 2020) &#8211; since this presentation, the site has grown from 120+ to 160+ information pages to cover the years beyond Reconstruction until 1894<\/li>\n<li>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HFUTv5OyZMQ&amp;t=2s\">&#8220;Cultural Conversations&#8221; program for MSU Libraries<\/a> (Oct 5, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msstate.edu\/newsroom\/article\/2020\/12\/msu-libraries-documents-african-american-legislators-mississippi\">&#8220;MSU Libraries Documents African American Legislators in Mississippi with Online &#8220;Against All Odds&#8221; Exhibit&#8221;<\/a> (Dec 8, 2020)<\/li>\n<li>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MgR18YeeFZQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Against All Odds: Telling the Stories of the First Black Legislators in Mississippi<\/a> &#8211; conversation with <a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/g-w-albright\/\">Albright<\/a> descendant Karen Burch, <a href=\"https:\/\/much-ado.net\/legislators\/legislators\/emanuel-handy\/\">Handy<\/a> descendant Bianca Ford, and me for the Society of Mississippi Archivists&#8217; Virtual Table Talks program (May 21, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewsindh.pubpub.org\/pub\/against-all-odds\/release\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Against All Odds in <em>Reviews in Digital Humanities<\/em><\/a> &#8211; this site reviewed by Dr. Kimber Thomas of UNC Chapel Hill (June 2021)<\/li>\n<li>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TbKsaHAPm7w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Black Histories<\/a> &#8211; Association for Documentary Editors conference panel in which I participated (July 27, 2021)<\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov\/issue\/first-black-legislators-mississippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The First Black Legislators in Mississippi<\/a> &#8211; written by me for <em>Mississippi History Now<\/em>, which provides history articles for K-12 students accompanied by lesson plans created by teachers (Aug 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XMU8WMmSrDQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introducing High School Students to Mississippi&#8217;s First Black Legislators<\/a> &#8211; presentation for the Society of Mississippi Archivists&#8217; Virtual Table Talks program (Oct 28, 2022)<\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/exhibitions.arlisna.hcommons.org\/library-exhibitions-review-2023\/against-all-odds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Against All Odds in\u00a0<em>Library Exhibitions Review<\/em><\/a> &#8211; this site reviewed by Jacob Lackner of Emory University (Mar 2023)<\/li>\n<li>Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/story\/portico-pilot-project-offers-digital-preservation-to-underrepresented-community-collections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portico Pilot Project Offers Digital Preservation to Underrepresented Community Collection<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0<em>Library Journal\u00a0<\/em>coverage of Portico&#8217;s preservation work with AAO and other projects (Jun 7, 2024)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Making Their Mark project to install historical markers for the AAO legislators across Mississippi, accompanied by community programming, part of Monument Lab&#8217;s 2026 Re:Generation Cohort Access genealogical information and hundreds of attached sources on Ancestry.com (requires subscription) or Geneanet Tracking all the legislators on the federal census &#8211; 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