Recording Yalobusha\u27s Black History: Phase I Begins

In this article from North Mississippi Herald, October 17, 2019, Reed describes meeting the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson\u27s class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), at the University of Mississippi.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/blkfam_yaloabout/1003/thumbnail.jp

Preserving our history to help us understand the past and present: Launching Phase II, Outstanding Black Women of Yalobusha County; From the Ole Miss Classroom to the Yalobusha Community

Articles from North Mississippi Herald, August 22, 2019, describe the benefit of, and plans for, and oral history project to capture the stories of Black families in Yalobusha County.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/blkfam_yaloabout/1001/thumbnail.jp

Reed, Dottie

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All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County

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