Black Community History
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The Secret Society of Survival: How Black Women Built a Safety Net in the Shadows of Mississippi
“In life, they organized. In death, they made sure no one was forgotten.” In the overgrown…
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Stuck in the Black Belt? Why Your Newton County Ancestors Might Be Hiding in the Piney Woods
For many family historians tracing their roots into Newton County, Mississippi, the trail naturally points eastward…
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Greene County, Alabama: A Gateway Between the Carolinas and Mississippi
For many families researching their roots in Newton County, Mississippi, the story does not begin in…
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The Quiet Architects: Professional Life and Community Survival in Jim Crow Mississippi
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, education was the most subversive tool available to…