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If Walls Could Talk

Material Memory by Council on Library and Information Resources

May 4, 202230:13Society & Culture

Learn about Alcorn State University student life–and civil rights protests–in the 1960s, and how a community-centered approach to librarianship has made Alcorn indispensable to the people of Lorman, MS.

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