Jackson State University

Items

• Black History Every Month: Farish Street Sundown, Newspaper article.
  A newspaper article from the Jackson Advocate about the history of the Farish Street Historic District. Some research for the article comes from Jackson State's Farish Street Oral History Collection.
• Population Trends for the Farish Street Area 1980-1990, Chart.
  A chart showing trends such as population, income, and number of housing units for the Farish Street Historic District between the years 1980 and 1990.
• Farish Street: The Way it Was, Speech.
  Aurelia Norris Young was a prominent Civil Rights activist and professor of music at Jackson State College and Tougaloo College. She gave this speech on the history of the Farish Street Historic District on April 9, 1983, at the Smith Robertson Neighborhood Folklife Festival, which honored the history and legacy of the district.
• Listing of Oral History Interviews of ‘A Neighborhood Discovery’ Farish Street Historic District (A Black Neighborhood).
  A list of all the interviews conducted as part of the Farish Street Oral History Project and a short essay outlining the history of the Farish Street Historic District.