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Collection Overview
| Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 750 items) |
| Abstract | Collection contains anthropological work of Terry Buffington (1947- ), a Black cultural anthropologist and social activist originally from West Point, Miss. Buffington's research focused on Black men from West Point, Miss., who came of age during the civil rights movement and were influenced by SNCC field organizers like Ralph Featherstone and Stokely Carmichael. In addition to tapes and transcripts of this work, the collection contains materials documenting life and work in Clay County, Miss., 1950s-1970s, materials from Buffington's late husband, John Buffington, and a scrapbook highlighting the Oxford-Afro Cultural Center, 1981-1983, with which Terry Buffington was heavily involved. Also included are photographs, printed materials, LPs, and a commemorative poster of a SNCC organizational chart. |
| Creator | Buffington, Terry, 1947- |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processing Information
Processed by: Jodi Berkowitz, March 2022
Encoded by: Jodi Berkowitz, April 2022
Film deaccessioned, February 2023
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Biographical Information
Terry Buffington (1947- ) is a Black cultural anthropologist and social activist originally from West Point, Miss. She was an active member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s and in her research studied Black men who were high school students in West Point, Miss. in 1960, during the civil rights movement. She is the widow of former Penn Center executive director John Buffington and resides in Washington state.
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Scope and Content
The Terry Buffington Papers document Buffington's anthropological work with Black men from West Point, Miss. who came of age during the civil rights movement and were influenced by SNCC field organizers like Ralph Featherstone and Stokely Carmichael. In addition to tapes and transcripts of this work, the collection contains materials documenting life and work in Clay County, Miss., 1950s-1970s, materials from Buffington's late husband, John Buffington, and a scrapbook highlighting the Oxford-Afro Cultural Center, 1981-1983, with which Terry Buffington was heavily involved. Also included are photographs, printed materials, LPs, and a commemorative poster of a SNCC organizational chart.
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Terry Buffington Papers, 1952-2014.
Arrangement: alphabetical by file name. Folder titles were derived from original folder names and from descriptive metadata found within the files by the processing archivist.
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