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Finding Aid for the Sarah Rice/Louise Westling Collection<br /> MUM00473<br />

Finding Aid for the Sarah Rice/Louise Westling Collection


MUM00473

PURL

http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00473/

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Creator
Rice, Sarah, 1909-
Creator
Westling, Louise Hutchings
Title
Sarah Rice/Louise Westling Collection
ID
MUM00473
Date
unknown
Extent
0.5 Linear feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains audio recordings and transcripts of Sarah Rice’s autobiography
He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice.

Preferred Citation

Sarah Rice/Louise Westling Collection (MUM00473), Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University
of Mississippi

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Biographical Notes

Sarah Rice

Sarah Rice (b. 1909), the daughter of a schoolteacher mother and a minister father, grew up in a family of eight children
in rural Alabama. She published her autobiography
He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice in 1989. The autobiography tells the story of her life as an African-American woman in Alabama in the 20th century.

Louise Westling

Louise Westling transcribed and edited
He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice. Westling is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. She has authored several books including
 Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O’Connor and
 The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape and Gender in American Literature.

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Scope and Content

The collection contains 16 audio tapes and transcripts of Sarah Rice’s autobiography
He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries February 2013

Access Restrictions

The Sarah Rice/Louise Westling Collection is open for research.

Copyright Restrictions

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions
of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a
photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used
for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy
or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Processing Information

Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid created by Kathryn Michaelis, February 2013.

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Related Materials

Related Materials at the University of Mississippi

For more collections related to African-American life, see the Archives’
Civil Rights and Race Relations subject guide.

For more collections related to literature, see the Archives’
Literary Collections subject guide.

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Controlled Access Headings

Format(s)

  • audiocassettes
  • transcripts

Subject(s)

  • African American women — Alabama — Biography
  • African Americans — Southern States
  • Autobiography

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Collection Inventory

 1.1 “In Memory of Papa and Mama” by Charity Beatrice Webb 

 1.2-1.11 Sixteen audio tapes and transcripts of
He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice 

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