Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: 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...