The Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister House Foundation will host a public symposium titled “Shaping the Cultural Environment: A Window on the World,” October 24-25, honoring the life and legacy of educator Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister (1899-1996). The symposium will be held at Hinds Community College in Vicksburg and is supported by a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council. The event will offer an overview of McAllister’s life and work in higher education with presentations and panel discussions. Among the featured presenters will be Dr. Ralph Eubanks of the University of Mississippi, author of A Place Like Mississippi (2021), Dr. Maryemma Graham of the University of Kansas, author of The House Where My Soul Lives: The Life of Margaret Walker Alexander (2022), and Dr. Jarvis Givens of Harvard University, author of Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (2021) and School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness (2023), with opening remarks given by Michael Morris, director of the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The documentary “My Mind To Me is A Kingdom” by director David Rae Morris will be shown at the Strand Theatre, 717 Clay Street, Vicksburg, on Thursday, October 24, at 6:30 p.m. Registration is free and available here. For inquiries about the Dr. Jane McAllister Symposium, please call 855-933-5529 ext. 2.
Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister House Foundation public symposium in Vicksburg