Events

 Join Tougaloo College for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Grassroots Organizing Discussion: Organizing Tradition in the Movement Roundtableas part of the SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series. SNCC veterans Charles McLaurin and Jennifer Lawson and Movement historians Robert Greene and Emilye Crosby will discuss SNCC’s work on Black Power. This project is in collaboration with the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

Join Tougaloo College Saturday, February 8 at 1 p.m. for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Grassroots Organizing: Organizing Tradition Workshop that is a part of the SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series. In this interactive learning toolkit workshop, participants will dig into exciting SNCC documents and audiovisual materials, learn about the organizing tradition in SNCC’s movement building, and collectively explore how those lessons are relevant today.

Join Tougaloo College for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Grassroots Organizing Discussion: Black Power Roundtable Discussion as part of the SNCC Grassroots Organizing & Discussion Series.

 Join Tougaloo College for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Grassroots Organizing Discussion: Organizing Tradition in the Movement Roundtable as part of the SNCC & Grassroots Organizing Discussion Series. The Organizing Tradition, introduced by activist Ella Baker, explores the approach to social change that emphasizes the development of skills, leadership ability in everyday people, and unity in collaboration. This project is in collaboration with the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

Interested in furthering your genealogical research? Join us Saturday, March 15, at 10 a.m. for the Death Records Genealogy Workshop in the orientation room of the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. MDAH Historic Specialist William Thompson will cover death certificates, obituaries, cemetery indexes, mortality schedules, funeral home records, grave registrations and some on-line resources. Thompson will also discuss the type of death records in MDAH’s archival holdings as well as how researchers can use these records to further their genealogical research.

At noon March 26, Bill Crawford, editor, reporter, and former Mississippi State Representative, alongside Luther Munford, author and Mississippi-based litigator, will present “A Republican’s Lament: Mississippi Needs Good Government Conservatives” as part of the History Is Lunch  series. Crawford's book of the same name examines his efforts, as a Republican, to implement politician Gil Carmichael’s vision, his observations of Mississippi’s struggles, and his commentaries over the past half century. This program will take place in the Craig H.

Join us for a screening of My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is on Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. Directed by David Rae Morris, this hour and a half documentary focuses on the life and career of Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister, the first African American woman to earn a doctorate in education. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov. 

At noon Wednesday, February 19, C.T. Salazar, writer, librarian, and volunteer organizer and tour guide at the Amzie Moore House Museum and Interpretive Center, will present “Amzie Moore’s Century: A Delta Freedom House" as part of the History Is Lunch series. This program will focus on Mississippi Delta native Amzie Moore’s activism during the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and his lifelong work to the freedom struggle. The program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel.

At noon Wednesday, March 5, Brother Rogers, MDAH historian, will present “Remembering Elbert Hilliard” as part of the History Is Lunch series. This program will honor Elbert Hilliard’s legacy, who passed away in 2024. Hilliard became the fifth director of MDAH in 1973 and served as the secretary-treasurer of the Mississippi Historical Society for forty-four years. He retired in 2004 after thirty-nine years of public service. The program will take place in the Craig H.

Enjoy a pop-up sale and lesson on how to grow camellias at the Camellia Talk & Flash Sale Thursday, February 20, at the Eudora Welty House & Garden. Paige Mizell of Mizell Camellia Hill Nursery will lead a talk about camellias in the Welty potting shed from noon to 1 p.m. During this event, guests may purchase camellias from Mizell. The sale will last until plants are sold out! A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Eudora Welty Foundation. For more information, call 601-353-7762 or email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com.