Community Partners

Community Partners

We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support we have received from our community partnerships since the beginning of this program. We could not do this without you. Thank you.

Working with students at the JL King Center
Students teaching children at the JL King center about the cemetery.

Community Partners

The NAACP Oktibbeha County

The Starkville Oktibbeha Unity League (SOUL)

Loving Our Community Sufficiently (LOCS)

The J.L. King Center

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Upsilon Pi Omega Chapter

Second Baptist Church

Griffin United Methodist Church

Starkville Strong

The Starkville Town and Country Garden Club

The Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum

The Mississippi State University Center for Community Engaged Learning

The Starkville Historic Preservation Commission

Gardens of love

Descendant Community Collaborators

Martha Collins

Bessie Minor Brown

Darlene Fisher

Victor Evans

Tara Jenkins

Cassandra Norton Nichols

Our Network

Jackson State University Margaret Walker Center

Mt. Olive Cemetery

Black Cemetery Network

Chuck Yarborough

Mississippi Department of Archives and History

University Support

Department of Anthropology & Middle Eastern Cultures (AMEC)

MS State University Libraries Archives and Special Collections

Contact the Project

Email us for more information, to share your stories, and/or to become a community partner. We would love to hear from you!

brusharbor@anthro.msstate.edu