Springboard for Opportunities invites you to an evening of celebration as their middle school students present the books they created based on the lives of Mississippi Civil Rights veterans. A Light reception will follow the presentation. Please contact Sarah Stripp at sstripp@springboardto.org or (769) 251-0924 with any questions regarding the event.
The free, family-oriented event hosts people and tribes from all over the country and includes traditional Native American dances, dancing competitions, music and art, as well as food and vendors. The Petal Southern Miss Powwow brings people together to meet and greet and become aware of the Choctaw presence and the Indian presence in the […]
A celebration and presentation of stories collected by Providence M.B. Church's program, Testimonies: Stories of Race and Reconciliation in the Mississippi Delta. Details TBA.
A living history program about the early pioneer settlers in Mississippi. Discussion centers around how they dressed, built their homes, produced and cooked their food, the use of flintlock rifles for hunting and protection of their homesteads, building fire using flint-and-steel, grinding corn in hollow stumps, children’s homemade toys and music on the mountain dulcimer. […]
Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Women's Foundation of Mississippi, and Rethink Mississippi on April 24 at Hal and Mal's for the fourth and final installment of our spring series "Emerging Mississippi." On April 24, we'll be discussing media and news coverage in Mississippi in the 21st century. We'll discuss how news is disseminated, how people choose to receive their news, […]
A representative from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS, will discuss the steps to naturalization and answer questions about the process. UM Libraries’ Citizenship Resource Corner will be highlighted as a source for local information.
On April 26, the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi will host "Ideas on Tap: What Do We Commemorate & Why?" at Proud Larry's in Oxford. The program will feature Dr. Charles Ross, Director of African American Studies & Professor of History at the […]
The creators of the civil rights play, “Beautiful Agitators,” are presenting a staged reading at Jobe Hall Auditorium, Delta State University, this coming Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. The play is about Ms. Vera Mae Pigee of Clarksdale who was an instrumental figure in the fight for racial equality in Mississippi.
Join the Mississippi Humanities Council on May 22 at Hal and Mal's for a conversation on potholes, bridge closures, and, ultimately, the role of government in our society. We'll use the recent infrastructure crisis to examine what government should be doing for society, what its responsibilities are (or are not), and how this shapes policy and perception. Kenneth Townsend (Millsaps College) […]
This presentation will explore the crucial Battle of Brice’s Crossroads during the Civil War and the role of the controversial Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Speakers Expertise: Edwina H. Carpenter serves as director of the Brice's Crossroads National Battlefield and Interpretive Center in Baldwyn, MS. Through research and artifact conservation, exhibit design, tours and events, […]
This presenter shares the experiences told to him by 53 living veterans of WWII and recorded on 27 DVD tapes covering 34 hours of interviews. The veterans’ experiences provide a detailed look into how young men and women and families gave their lives to their country so that we might have the freedoms we sometimes […]
