The WPA Slave Narratives: Giving Voice to Freedom
Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County 329 Hardy Street, Hattiesburg, MSPart of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series.
Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series.
Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and went on to become one of the highest-profile voices for civil rights in the nineteenth century. On Tuesday, February Read More >
Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's "Celebrating African American History & Culture" series that will be on display during February, Black History Month, in the library galleries.
Learn how a bill becomes a law, how to look up the actual text of bills by name, keyword, bill number, and even congressional representative using congress.gov.
Jackson State University welcomes Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give to speak in a community forum on March 1, 2018. She will engage her audience in dialogue on Read More >
The Washington County Library System in Greenville, Miss., in partnership with the Greenwood, Miss.-based Turnrow Book Company kicks offl Literary Arts in the Delta Festival (Lit in the Delta Fest) Read More >
Dr. Daniel Sack, program officer with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Research Programs, will be visiting our region on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Mississippi State University (MSU) Read More >
Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, Rethink Mississippi, and the Women's Foundation of Mississippi at Hal and Mal's on March 20 for the third installment in our spring series "Emerging Mississippi." Each month, we'll look at Read More >
Annual literary conference based on the University of Mississippi campus. The 2018 conference will explore a range of topics, from the desegregation of public libraries, the role of long-form journalism Read More >
The Winning the Race Conference was developed with three overarching goals: engage in conversations with campus and community constituencies that will build an appreciation for diversity differences and a spirit Read More >