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A new program at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will highlight music genres that originated in Mississippi. The first of the museum’s Field to Funk series will take place on Tuesday, April 2, at 6 p.m. in the Craig H.

The Museum of Mississippi History, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, and the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life will host the Mississippi Freedom Seder on Tuesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums.

A multi-family antebellum slave dwelling in Natchez, an African American school and church, two residen

On Tuesday, February 26, former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Frank Williams will present “Ulysses S. Grant, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights” at the Old Capitol Museum.

An exhibit at the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum showcases rare artifacts uncovered from the wreckage of a sunken slave ship.

An exhibit at the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum showcases rare artifacts uncovered from the wreckage of a sunken slave ship.

FedEx Corporation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation are supporting free admission to the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum from Saturday, January 19, through Tuesday, January 22, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr.

The Mississippi Historical Society (MHS) will hold its annual meeting Thursday, February 28, through Saturday, March 2 in

At noon on Wednesday, November 20, as part of the department’s History Is Lunch series, Rick Cleveland will mode