At noon on Wednesday, November 4, Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, John Lyons, and Joe Batts will discuss their new book Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country: The Benton County Civil Rights Movement as part of the streaming-only History Is Lunch series. The program will stream live on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s Facebook page—https://www.facebook.com/MDAHOfficial—and be available afterwards there as well as on the MDAH YouTube channel—https://www.youtube.com/MDAHVideo and on our History Is Lunch page.
History Is Lunch is sponsored by the John and Lucy Shackelford Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation for Mississippi. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson.