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#UndertheLight: Chinese in Jim Crow Mississippi

The 2020 #UndertheLight series continues with an online discussion of the discrimination against the Chinese during Jim Crow in Mississippi featuring guest lecturer Adrienne Berard, research communications specialist at the College of William & Mary in Virginia and author of Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South. The presentation will also include a virtual tour through the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum's A Closed Society gallery. The program will be live-streamed on the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Facebook page. For more information, email info@twomississippimuseums.com. 

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Autumn Yoga in the Welty Garden

September 29, 2026, 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Bring your mats for free adult yoga on Tuesdays, September 29 through October 27, from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Certified yoga instructor Maya Morris will lead these classes, beginning with an intention-based on a quote from Eudora Welty's writing.

Welty Wednesdays

September 30, 2026, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm

Join the Eudora Welty House & Garden (EWHG) for Welty Wednesdays beginning Wednesday, January 8. In honor of 1119 Pinehurst Street's 100-year anniversary, free admission will be offered every Wednesday, in addition to the long-standing tradition of free admission on the 13th of each month honoring Welty’s April 13 birthday.

History Is Lunch: Charles Payne, “This Transformation of People: Notes on Bob Moses, Mississippi, and Organizing”

September 30, 2026, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Join us at noon on Wednesday, September 30, for the inaugural Bob Moses Lecture Series during History Is Lunch. Historian Charles Payne will explore how civil rights activist Ella Baker influenced Moses’s approach to organizing, from his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to the founding of the Algebra Project. Payne, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, will trace the connection between Baker’s grassroots, relationship-driven approach and Moses’s lifelong commitment to collective empowerment through education and organizing. This free event 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 I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.