At noon on Wednesday, December 10, historian Justin Randolph will present “Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside” as part of the History Is Lunch series. Randolph will explore how law enforcement shaped life in the segregated South and how expanded police power between the Civil War and the civil rights movement reinforced systems of racial control. Randolph, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, is the author of Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. This program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and will stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Copies of Mississippi Law will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
History Is Lunch: Justin Randolph, "The Force of Law: Policing and Reform in Jim Crow Mississippi"