Sarah Barrash Correspondence regarding Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1995-1999 March 16
This collection consists primarily of correspondence between Sarah Barrash, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, and numerous scholars concerning the impact of James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men on the Civil Rights Movement and specifically on the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964. It is Barrash's belief that Agee's work has mostly been read for its literary style and technique and not, as Agee intended, as "a swindle, and insult, and a corrective." The collection also includes an article published in Reckon magazine on the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi featuring a photograph of Bob Moses holding a copy of Letters of James Agee to Father Flye.
Dates
- 1995-1999 March 16
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested in advance. See www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Extent
From the Collection: 0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository