On March 15, East Mississippi Community College in Scooba will host Dr. Brinda Willis of the MHC’s Speakers Bureau to present her free and open to the public program “From the Fields to the Factory: The Great Migration of African Americans From the Fields of Mississippi to the Cities and Factories in the North.” The program will take place in conjunction with the Smithsonian traveling exhibit Crossroads: Change in Rural America, on display in Scooba through March 12.
Dr. Willis’s presentation will explore the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North in the 20th century.
The program will take place on Zoom. Details for how to log onto the free Zoom program can be found on the EMCC website.
Crossroads: Change in Rural America offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century. The exhibition will prompt discussions about what happened when America’s rural population became a minority of the country’s population and the ripple effects that occurred.
The exhibit will be on display in the Tubb-May Memorial Library on EMCC’s Scooba campus and is open to the public Mondays to Thursdays 10am-7pm, Fridays 10am-2pm, and Sundays 3pm-6pm. Crossroads is free to visit.
