About the Summit
As a follow up to these events, MS Delta NHA/Delta Center, BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, Mississippi Humanities Council, Mound Bayou Museum, the National Park Service, and other regional partners are collaborating to host a Civil Rights Heritage Tourism Summit. The Summit is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at BB King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center and the historic, recently restored Club Ebony in Indianola, MS.
In April 2022, the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area (MS Delta NHA) at Delta State University’s Delta Center for Culture and Learning hosted the Alliance of National Heritage Areas Spring Meeting. The meeting included an inclusive storytelling and community-based tourism development session with a special focus on African American Civil Rights heritage in the Mississippi Delta. The session was facilitated by Dr. Déanda Johnson, National Park Service Civil Rights Historian for the Southeast Region. MS Delta NHA is the first NHA to be designated to the National Park Service’s African American Civil Rights Network
