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[Identification of item], in the Mound Bayou Collection #5009-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Materials received between 1994 and 1995 (Acc. 98541).

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• African Americans--Mississippi--Economic conditions.
• African Americans--Mississippi--History.
• African Americans--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Bolivar County (Miss.)--History.
• Crowe, Milburn.
• Green, Benjamin T.
• Mississippi--History.
• Montgomery, Isaiah T.
• Mound Bayou (Miss.)--Economic conditions.
• Mound Bayou (Miss.)--History.
• Mound Bayou (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Oral history.

• Delta Health Center Records (#4613), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mound Bayou, located in Bolivar County, Miss., was founded on 12 July 1887 as an African-American colony by Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green. In 1994, Milburn Crowe, of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mound Bayou's History, began working with Southern Historical Collection and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in an effort to better preserve Mound Bayou's historical documents and launch an oral history initiative.

Materials consist of a 1928 pamphlet for the 42nd anniversary of the founding of Mound Bayou, Miss.; two issues of The Voice, a Mound Bayou newsletter, July 1971 and 10 November 1994, which discuss the history of Mound Bayou, provide biographical information on founders Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green, and document the current political, educational, and communal activities of Mound Bayou and the surrounding area; a 30 April 1994 flyer for an annual banquet sponsored by the Bolivar County, Miss., section of the National Council of Negro Women; Matthew Preston's 1995 report, Economic Development Assessment for the City of Mound Bayou, Mississippi; a videotape entitled, Mound Bayou--An Oral History; and two audiocassettes: "Passing it on: Mound Bayou" and "Willie A. Woodley, 10 July 1995."

• Audiocassettes (C-5009/1-2)
• Videotapes (VT-5009/1)