Humanities Teacher Award winner Jay Wilson (Holmes Community College) will present his public lecture, “Mississippi’s Monumental Men: Jefferson Davis and J.Z. George.” Reception to follow
| For the last several years there has been much discussion of many of the public monuments raised early in the last century. A common refrain from the defenders of these monuments and statues has been “Leave them alone, they are history.” Oddly, the majority of people that say this seem to have a limited knowledge of the history they claim to be protecting. With that in mind, this presentation is aimed at recounting the history of the two men memorialized by Mississippi in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C.; Jefferson Davis and James Z. George. |
