This presentation consists of a brief introduction of the current state of incarceration in America and Mississippi. Dr. Pickett will then share with the audience the long history of incarceration in Mississippi beginning with the institution of slavery, the first jails in Natchez and Jackson, the black codes and the convict lease system in the […]
The Behind The Big House Tour is uncovering the truth about slavery in antebellum Holly Springs. Re-enactors channel the lives of enslaved people in the houses where they actually lived. They demonstrate the labor of slaves in the kitchen, the yard, and the big house.
The Museum of the Mississippi Delta is hosting the traveling exhibit "For All the World to See: Visual Culture and Struggle for Civil Rights," with an opening cocktail reception on Thursday, April 4. This exhibition examines the role visual culture played in shaping and transforming the struggle for racial equality in America from the late […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council will hold its Public Humanities Awards and Gala April 5, 2019, at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. The awards recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences. Help celebrate awardees Patti Carr Black, Winterville Mounds, Mississippi Today, Dr. Stephanie Clanton Rolph, Dr. Brinda […]
The murder of Emmett Till remains fresh in our memory as evidenced by recent articles in the Clarion Ledger by a variety of authors particularly since the reopening of the case by the U.S. Attorney General. Patrick Weems of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center will facilitate the panel discussion that will include: 1) Devery S. Anderson, author […]
NMHS Unlimited Productions and the Mississippi Humanities Council present the documentary film “Mississippi Justice,” a film based on actual events that occurred in Pike County, Mississippi in 1951. This event is free and open to the public. Based on documented records, the film centers around a 20-year-old black female, Hattie Lee Barnes, with only a […]
NMHS Unlimited Productions and the Mississippi Humanities Council present the documentary film “Mississippi Justice,” a film based on actual events that occurred in Pike County, Mississippi in 1951. This event is free and open to the public. Based on documented records, the film centers around a 20-year-old black female, Hattie Lee Barnes, with only a fourth-grade education, […]
The 2019 annual Sammy O. Craford Memorial History Lecture will take place Thursday, April 11. This year, Dr. Joseph Crespino (Jimmy Carter Professor of American History at Emory University) will deliver a presentation entitled "Atticus Finch: The Biography." The lecture will take place at 7pm in the Jobe Hall Auditorium on the DSU campus.
The Margaret Walker Center presents the photography exhibition Everywhere with Roy Lewis as part of its 13th annual student conference at Jackson State University. Roy Lewis has been a celebrated black photographer for the past 50 years, who photographed many of the iconic moments of the modern civil rights movement and was often invited by Dr. Margaret […]
In colorful costume,storytellers Rebecca Jernigan and Wendy Garrison retell the tale of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson. With music, drama and sign language, they recount his fateful encounter with the Prince of Darkness at the crossroads in the Delta. In educational venues they stress that the audience is integral to any live performance. They discuss the […]
The 2019 Petal Suthern Miss Powwow will be held on April 13-14 with a school day on April 11. It will take place at Willie Hinton Park in Petal, with Natives and non-Natives in celebration of American Indian Culture, crafts, foodways, dance, and song.
Turry Flucker will lead a panel that will focuses on two significant art groups that responded to the Civil Rights movement: The Art Committee for Tougaloo College and Spiral: An African American Art Collective. Active from the summer of 1963 through 1965, he group of artists met weekly to discuss the role of African-American artists in […]
