Draft:DeeDee Baldwin

DeeDee Baldwin is a research librarian at Mississippi State and the past president of the Society of Mississippi Archivists. She is leading the Against All Odds project to document and uncover archives related to the more than 150 African American legislators who served in Mississippi during and after the Reconstruction era. As part of her Against All Odds and genealogy research, she has done extensive research on Oktibbeha County cemeteries to raise the profile of African American cemeteries.

Baldwin received her Bachelors in 2001 from William Carey College and an MLIS degree from the University of Alabama in 2014.

She tweeted about the transcription of Vicksburg, Mississippi's Reconstruction era black sheriff Peter Crosby's telegram that he could not hold his office, not long before the Vicksburg massacre.

She has also contributed to ongoing efforts to document the live of Frederick Douglass.