On December 1, the MHC and the Mississippi Arts & Entertainment Experience (MAX) will host a free and open to the public film screening and panel discussion titled “School Integration Revisited: Yazoo City and Meridian.”
The program will begin with a free screening of “Yazoo Revisited,” a documentary film by David Rae Morris that examines school integration in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Following the screening will be a panel discussion to discuss school integration in both Yazoo City and Meridian. The panel will include David Rae Morris, Melba Clark Payne, the first African American educator at Northwest High School in Meridian, and Ida Tomlin, Director of Operations at The MAX and former student in Meridian during the Freedom of Choice era. The panel will be moderated by MHC Executive Director Dr. Stuart Rockoff.
