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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Dent felt his work in oral histories during the late 1970s and early 1980s for the Mississippi Oral History Project, as well as his extensive historical research and writing done for the Andrew Young book should be used in some fashion. To do this, he set out to travel again to document historic African American communities and the era of civil rights in the South by expanding his interviews beyond Mississippi and the River to encompass what he considered the "Deep South" from 1991...