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Welty Fellow Begins Research at MDAH
The MDAH Board ofTrustees awarded the 2013 Eudora Welty Research Fellowship to Ebony O. Lumumba, an advanced doctoral student in English at the University of Mississippi, at their quarterly meeting on April 19.Established by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Department of Archives and History, the fellowship seeks to encourage and support research use of the Eudora Welty Collection by graduate students.
“We’re grateful to the Foundation for funding this award for a third consecutive year and delighted that another highly qualified fellow will make extensive use of the Welty Collection again this summer,” said Julia Marks Young, director of the MDAH Archives and Record Services Division.
Lumumba will use the $2,000 fellowship to cover travel, housing, and other expenses incurred while doing primary research in the Eudora Welty Collection at the William F. Winter Archives‘and History Building to explore the inclusion of elements of the African American community in Welty’s fiction and photographs. She plans to spend two months this summer in the archives reviewing images, letters, and published works in preparation for her dissertation on mothering and foodways of disenfranchised communities in texts of the Global South, including South Africa,
Southeast Asia, and the American South.
Lumumba is a native of Jackson and a graduate of Mur-rah High School.
“I grew up reading Welty’s books and going to the Eudora Welty Library,” said Lumumba.
“My research here will involve looking at how disenfranchised women are represented in Welty’s written and photographic work, and I’m looking forward to seeing how that may be revealed in her letters and unfinished manuscripts.”
The Eudora Welty Collection
at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History is the premier collection of Eudora Welty materials in the world and one of the most varied literary collections in the United States. The collection includes manuscripts, letters, photographs, drawings, essays, and film and video footage
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that spans Welty's entire life.
Beginning in 1957, and over the course of more than forty years, Welty donated materials to the department, primarily literary manuscripts and photographs. At her death the remainder of her papers were bequeathed to MDAH, included unpublished manuscripts and
14,000	items of correspondence with family, friends, scholars, young writers, and noted writers.
The collection may be accessed at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, 200 North Street, Jackson. For more information on the collection or the fellowship, contact Forrest Galey at 601 -576-6850 or by email at fgaley@mdah. state.ms.us.
$3M Available for Preservation Projects
A popular grant program for preservation projects across the state has been reauthorized. The 2012 Mississippi legislature provided for $3 million for competitive grants in the ninth round of the Community Heritage Preservation Grant Program, which helps preserve, restore, rehabilitate, and interpret historic courthouses and schools. In Certified Local Government communities grant funds may also be used for projects involving historic buildings other than courthouses or schools. Only properties that have been designated Mississippi Landmarks are eligible for the grants.
Only county or municipal governments, school districts, and nonprofit organizations
The Tallahatchie County Courthouse using a CHPG grant from MDAH.
granted Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by the IRS may submit applications. A cash match of at least 20 percent
is required, and grant awards are reimbursed upon the successful completion of the project.
The MDAH Board ofTrustees will award the grants at a special meeting in December. All grant projects must be completed by December 1, 2016.
To become a Certified Local Government, a community must adopt a preservation ordinance establishing a preservation commission in accordance with
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federal and state guidelines. Once the commission has been established, application for CLG status may be made to the National Park Service through the Department of Archives and History. MDAH works closely with local government officials and citizens to help them create and manage a workable local historic preservation program. To learn more about the CLG program, contact Michelle Jones, 662-325-2520.
Grant applications may be downloaded from the MDAH website beginning July 1. Completed applications are due by 5 p.m. on September 27, 2013. For more information contact Mingo Tingle at 601 -576-6952 or mtingle@mdah. state.ms.us.