DeeDee Baldwin
@deedeebaldwinms.bsky.social
Engagement librarian at Mississippi State. Researching Black legislators in Mississippi during Reconstruction. Opinions represent me alone. Rocking the AuDHD. 40-something fangirl and secular humanist. Aunt to humans, mom to cats. she/her
Presenting "Until It Is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Teach the History of Civil Rights in Mississippi" at @asalh-bhm.bsky.social with @jperksmith.bsky.social, Al Dorsey, and Beth Kruse #ASALH2025
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Presenting "Until It Is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Teach the History of Civil Rights in Mississippi" at @asalh-bhm.bsky.social with @jperksmith.bsky.social, Al Dorsey, and Beth Kruse #ASALH2025
I'm aliiiiive! I'm out of Mississippi and in Atlanta for @asalh-bhm.bsky.social, so I was able to get on Bluesky! Full day of panels today. My panel with Jessica Smith and Al Dorsey, "Until it is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Tell the Story of Civil Rights in Mississippi," is tomorrow at 4:00.
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I'm aliiiiive! I'm out of Mississippi and in Atlanta for @asalh-bhm.bsky.social, so I was able to get on Bluesky! Full day of panels today. My panel with Jessica Smith and Al Dorsey, "Until it is Faced: Using Primary Sources to Tell the Story of Civil Rights in Mississippi," is tomorrow at 4:00.
During the first week of September, we'll be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre with several events in and around Clinton, Mississippi. Details at much-ado.net/legislators/.... Please help spread the word!
August 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
During the first week of September, we'll be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre with several events in and around Clinton, Mississippi. Details at much-ado.net/legislators/.... Please help spread the word!
In today's mail! I've been waiting for this to come out. 😁 @upmississippi.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
In today's mail! I've been waiting for this to come out. 😁 @upmississippi.bsky.social
Honoring Emmett Till's birthday at the national monument in Sumner, MS
July 26, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Honoring Emmett Till's birthday at the national monument in Sumner, MS
This is the small newspaper clipping that I show to my Governor's School students to show the callous establishment reaction to the murder.
July 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is the small newspaper clipping that I show to my Governor's School students to show the callous establishment reaction to the murder.
"If you want to dismantle democracy, take out the people who can prove why it needs to exist." @staceyabrams.com at @mmei63.bsky.social on why authoritarians are afraid of teaching about people like Medgar Evers
June 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"If you want to dismantle democracy, take out the people who can prove why it needs to exist." @staceyabrams.com at @mmei63.bsky.social on why authoritarians are afraid of teaching about people like Medgar Evers
"Journalism, Truth, and Civil Rights" panel with @fumblebragg.bsky.social, @annawolfe.bsky.social, Howard Ballou, @jmitchellnews.bsky.social, and @nhannahjones.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"Journalism, Truth, and Civil Rights" panel with @fumblebragg.bsky.social, @annawolfe.bsky.social, Howard Ballou, @jmitchellnews.bsky.social, and @nhannahjones.bsky.social
This lady made my day by celebrating Reconstruction in Mississippi! @joyannreid.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This lady made my day by celebrating Reconstruction in Mississippi! @joyannreid.bsky.social
Great conversation about the stories we tell - and don't tell - with @wralpheubanks.bsky.social, @joyannreid.bsky.social, and Dr. Ebony Lumumba. Thank you, Joy, for the shout-out to Reconstruction!
June 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Great conversation about the stories we tell - and don't tell - with @wralpheubanks.bsky.social, @joyannreid.bsky.social, and Dr. Ebony Lumumba. Thank you, Joy, for the shout-out to Reconstruction!
Powerful talk about Medgar Evers by Michael Vinson Williams
June 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Powerful talk about Medgar Evers by Michael Vinson Williams
Amazing panel with Bettie Dahmer, @reenaevers.bsky.social, and @kerrykennedy.bsky.social telling wonderful stories about their fathers, civil rights martyrs. Moderated by @joyannreid.bsky.social. Powerful kickoff to a weekend celebrating the 100th birthday of Medgar Evers.
June 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Amazing panel with Bettie Dahmer, @reenaevers.bsky.social, and @kerrykennedy.bsky.social telling wonderful stories about their fathers, civil rights martyrs. Moderated by @joyannreid.bsky.social. Powerful kickoff to a weekend celebrating the 100th birthday of Medgar Evers.
In today's mail: my official copy of the Mississippi Senate's resolution to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre and honor the lives lost, including legislators James G. Patterson and Charles Caldwell #TeachReconstruction
June 12, 2025 at 2:27 AM
In today's mail: my official copy of the Mississippi Senate's resolution to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre and honor the lives lost, including legislators James G. Patterson and Charles Caldwell #TeachReconstruction
My Mississippi Governor's School students spent the afternoon analyzing Reconstruction-era treasures (like a John R. Lynch letter and a Blanche K. Bruce document) from the MSU Libraries' archives, touring the Grant Presidential Library, and making buttons and magnets in the Digital Media Center.
June 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
My Mississippi Governor's School students spent the afternoon analyzing Reconstruction-era treasures (like a John R. Lynch letter and a Blanche K. Bruce document) from the MSU Libraries' archives, touring the Grant Presidential Library, and making buttons and magnets in the Digital Media Center.
Each June, Chuck Yarborough gives my Mississippi Governor's School scholars an overview of Columbus' rich African American history, including a visit to the gravesites of Lowndes County Reconstruction legislators Robert Gleed and Jesse Freeman Boulden.
June 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Each June, Chuck Yarborough gives my Mississippi Governor's School scholars an overview of Columbus' rich African American history, including a visit to the gravesites of Lowndes County Reconstruction legislators Robert Gleed and Jesse Freeman Boulden.
We had a GREAT first day at Mississippi Governor's School! Students had conversations as national historical figures in the @zinnedproject.bsky.social's Reconstruction Mixer. Tomorrow, they start meeting the legislators!
June 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
We had a GREAT first day at Mississippi Governor's School! Students had conversations as national historical figures in the @zinnedproject.bsky.social's Reconstruction Mixer. Tomorrow, they start meeting the legislators!
The 2025 session of the Mississippi Governor's School starts Monday, and my "Radical Courage: Black Legislators in Mississippi's Reconstruction Government" classroom is ready!
May 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The 2025 session of the Mississippi Governor's School starts Monday, and my "Radical Courage: Black Legislators in Mississippi's Reconstruction Government" classroom is ready!
From the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival, to the grand opening of the Grant Presidential Library here at Mississippi State, to her conversation with Michelle Obama at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social in New Orleans in 2018, every minute I got to be in the same room as Carla Hayden was a privilege.
May 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
From the 2017 Mississippi Book Festival, to the grand opening of the Grant Presidential Library here at Mississippi State, to her conversation with Michelle Obama at @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social in New Orleans in 2018, every minute I got to be in the same room as Carla Hayden was a privilege.
You have to appreciate the amount of effort it took to copy-paste the issue I called about into an entirely unrelated form email. Why even bother? Not replying at all would have been better than this apathetic "run along now."
April 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
You have to appreciate the amount of effort it took to copy-paste the issue I called about into an entirely unrelated form email. Why even bother? Not replying at all would have been better than this apathetic "run along now."
Another important Mississippi State program lost to the NEH purge. Here's an article about the Field School's work from @heatherharrison.bsky.social a couple of years ago: www.mississippifreepress.org/the-work-of-...
April 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Another important Mississippi State program lost to the NEH purge. Here's an article about the Field School's work from @heatherharrison.bsky.social a couple of years ago: www.mississippifreepress.org/the-work-of-...
When the world is crappy, get yourself a hug from @kiese.bsky.social. Beautiful conversation between him and @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social. 🥰
April 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
When the world is crappy, get yourself a hug from @kiese.bsky.social. Beautiful conversation between him and @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social. 🥰
In June 2022, I had the privilege of paying my respects to two Mississippi heroes buried in Arlington: Medgar Evers and John Roy Lynch. They can't erase history unless we let them, and we WON'T let them. #BlackHistory #DefendDEI #TeachTheTruth #BlackLivesMatter
March 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In June 2022, I had the privilege of paying my respects to two Mississippi heroes buried in Arlington: Medgar Evers and John Roy Lynch. They can't erase history unless we let them, and we WON'T let them. #BlackHistory #DefendDEI #TeachTheTruth #BlackLivesMatter
I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the greatest honors of my life.
March 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I'm not exaggerating when I say that this is one of the greatest honors of my life.
William L. Woods from Tougaloo kicks off the Mississippi Historical Society panel on the impact of John Dittmer's scholarship on civil rights in Mississippi, with Robby Luckett, Emilye Crosby, @francoisehamlin.bsky.social, and Christina Thomas.
March 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
William L. Woods from Tougaloo kicks off the Mississippi Historical Society panel on the impact of John Dittmer's scholarship on civil rights in Mississippi, with Robby Luckett, Emilye Crosby, @francoisehamlin.bsky.social, and Christina Thomas.
Mississippi Historical Society day two! I really enjoyed this presentation by @bougieprofessor.bsky.social Cassandra Hawkins, "Documenting the Voices of African American Women in Mississippi's Rural Communities."
March 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Mississippi Historical Society day two! I really enjoyed this presentation by @bougieprofessor.bsky.social Cassandra Hawkins, "Documenting the Voices of African American Women in Mississippi's Rural Communities."