Join us for History Is Lunch or watch the livestream when G. Mark LaFrancis, Robert Morgan, and Darrell White will screen their documentary Women of the Struggle: Facing Fear in the Civil Rights Era.
The 48-minute film chronicles the contributions to the Civil Rights Movement of eighteen women, from national figures such as Fannie Lou Hamer and Myrlie Evers to Tougaloo Nine member Geraldine Hollis, McComb activist and author Brenda Travis, and Flonzie Brown Wright, the first Black woman elected to public office in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. A Q&A session with the filmmakers will follow the presentation.
History Is Lunch is sponsored by the John and Lucy Shackelford Charitable Fund of the Community Foundation for Mississippi.
For more information, call 601-576-6850, or email info@mdah.ms.gov.