Hinds Community College

Learning Resources Center

Mission Statement

William H. Holtzclaw Jr. Black Heritage Collection and
Utica Normal & Industrial Institute Archives
Mission Statement

The William H. Holtzclaw Jr. Black Heritage Collection and the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute Archives was organized to preserve, and make accessible, records which are deemed to be of continuing value to Hinds Community College—Utica Campus, formerly Utica Junior College, formerly the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute.  The collection is intended to be used by students and faculty of the Utica Campus of Hinds Community College as well as interested researchers from outside the Hinds Community College family.

The collection chronicles the Black experience in rural Mississippi from the inception of the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute in 1903 through the merger of Utica Junior College and the Hinds Community College system in 1982.  The collection includes operational papers, yearbooks, books, handbooks, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, architectural records, correspondence, legal documents, meeting minutes, speeches as well as operational documents of campus administration.