DeeDee Baldwin is a research librarian at Mississippi State and the past president of the Society of Mississippi Archivists.[1] She is leading the Against All Odds project to document and uncover archives related to the more than 150 African American legislators who served in Mississippi during and after the Reconstruction era.[2][3][4][5] As part of her Against All Odds and genealogy research, she has done extensive research on Oktibbeha County cemeteries to raise the profile of African American cemeteries.[6]

Baldwin received her Bachelors in 2001 from William Carey College and an MLIS degree from the University of Alabama in 2014.[7]

She tweeted about the transcription of Vicksburg, Mississippi's Reconstruction era black sheriff Peter Crosby's telegram that he could not hold his office, not long before the Vicksburg massacre.[8]

She has also contributed to ongoing efforts to document the live of Frederick Douglass.[9]

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  1. ^ Ramseth, Luke (2021-02-26). "Historians to lawmakers: Please don't politicize Mississippi's archives and history board". Daily Journal Capitol. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  2. ^ Henry, Daja E. (2024-04-04). "Terror, Murder, Jim Crow Laws: Inside Mississippi's Voting Rights Fight". The Marshall Project. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
  3. ^ Gibson, Landon (2020-12-08). "MSU Libraries documents African American legislators in Mississippi with historical, online 'Against All Odds' exhibit". Mississippi State University. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  4. ^ Baldwin, DeeDee; Burch, Karen; Ford, Bianca (2021-05-21). "Against All Odds: Telling the Stories of the First Black Legislators in Mississippi". Mississippi State University, University Libraries Publications and Scholarship. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  5. ^ Baldwin, DeeDee; Maillard, Mary; Woo, Jewon; Jones-Sneed, Frances (2021-07-27). "The Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Black Histories". University Libraries Publications and Scholarship. 33.
  6. ^ Vrbin, Tess (2020-06-23). "Group works to get historically Black cemetery 'on the map'". The Dispatch. Archived from the original on 2021-11-05. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  7. ^ "DeeDee Baldwin History Research Librarian, Liaison to Honors College". Mississippi State University. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  8. ^ Wright, Bruce C. T. (2023-12-07). "Never Forget: The 'Vicksburg Massacre' Lynched Hundreds Of African Americans Defending Black Sheriff In Mississippi". NewsOne. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
  9. ^ Rochester, Abigail Sipe (2024-02-17). "Preserving history and 'dropping a line' with Frederick Douglass". The Dispatch. Retrieved 2024-05-13.
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