Events

Promised Land: A Story About Mound Bayou will be shown at 2 p.m. on Sunday, July 9. This documentary recounts the Mound Bayou community's success and growth formed under Isaiah Montgomery's leadership after the emancipation of enslaved people in Mississippi. A Q&A session with Roderick Red, CEO of Red Squared Media, and Matthew Holden, the consulting scholar on the documentary, will follow the screening. For more information, call 601-576-6850, or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

Calling all aspiring business leaders! Join us for Connect to Tech at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 8, at the Two Mississippi Museums. Learn how to promote and support your business with resources from business innovation experts and entrepreneurs. This program will also feature occupations associated with robotics and virtual reality technologies, coding and data and analytics skills, and growing economic opportunities in Mississippi. Visitors will also receive free admission to the temporary exhibit Solidarity Now!

Campers ages seven to nine will walk nature trails, play games like chunkey and archery, and create unique crafts to take home during Discovery Week Summer Camp at the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians from 9 a.m. to noon on June 19–23. Native American demonstrators will also provide special presentations.

At noon on Wednesday, June 28, Trent Brown will present “The Ordeals of Hattie Lee Barnes” as part of the History Is Lunch series. 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. Book sales and signing to follow.

At noon on Wednesday, June 21, Vince Venturini will present “The Civil War Diary of Belle Daniel” as part of the History Is Lunch series. 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.

At noon on Wednesday, June 14, Timothy B. Smith will present “Ten Things I’ve Learned Studying Vicksburg” as part of the History Is Lunch series. 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. Book sales and signing to follow.

At noon on Wednesday, June 7, Reena Evers-Everette, Dionne Bailey, Bobby Smith, and Pamela Walker will present “The Evers Archive: Voices, Justice, Legacies” as part of the History Is Lunch series. 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.

Admission to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is free every Sunday. This includes admission to the temporary exhibit This Is Home: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement. This exhibit will close on Friday, June 30. 

This is Home: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement exhibit will open at 9 a.m. on Thursday, June 1. This exhibit marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers by examining the life, death, and impact of the civil rights hero. As Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1954 to 1963, Evers was involved in every major civil rights action in the state.