{"id":11253,"date":"2011-11-04T13:17:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zing.olemiss.edu\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2014-09-23T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T13:33:33","slug":"overby-center-to-feature-political-archives-for-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/overby-center-to-feature-political-archives-for-election-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Overby Center to Feature Political Archives for Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

OXFORD, Miss. \u2013 The Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics will observe Mississippi\u2019s Election Day Tuesday (Nov. 8) with a program featuring a recent digitization project of the University of Mississippi’s Modern Political Archives.<\/p>\n

A selection of audio and video recordings \u2013 ranging from a 1950 Mike Wallace CBS interview on civil rights with the late Sen. James O. Eastland to vintage campaign commercials \u2013 will be played during the hourlong event at 11 a.m. in the Overby Center Auditorium. The program is free to the public.<\/p>\n

The showing of selected items from the archives will be accompanied by a discussion with three members of the Ole Miss faculty and staff who have been involved with the project: Leigh McWhite, political papers archivist at the library; Andy Harper, director of UM Media and Documentary Projects; and Micah Ginn, a former producer-director in Media and Documentary Projects and director of creative services for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.<\/p>\n

\u201cMississippi has no shortage of colorful and controversial politicians, so this program should be a lot of fun,\u201d said Overby Fellow Curtis Wilkie. \u201cSo many of these characters have been gone from the scene for years, but they shouldn\u2019t be forgotten. That\u2019s why this archival project is so valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Established in 2004, the Modern Political Archives received a $450,000 grant last year from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to preserve and digitize more than 3,000 recordings in its holdings.<\/p>\n

Researchers can access recordings in the collections of powerful 20th century politicians, including Eastland, Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin, and U.S. Reps. Jamie Whitten and Thomas G. Abernethy.\u00a0 The project also digitized recordings in the collection of the League of Women Voters of Mississippi, a 1966 speech by Robert F. Kennedy at Ole Miss and oral interviews of important Southern political figures in the Southern Women Legislators Collection and the Nash\/Taggart Collection.<\/p>\n

For further information on the project and links to the collections involved, visit http:\/\/www.olemiss.edu\/depts\/general_library\/archives\/political\/imls-grant.html<\/wbr><\/wbr><\/a>.
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