Are you interested in learning how to trace your family tree? Join us on Saturday, September 12, at 9:30 a.m. for a virtual workshop led by MDAH curator of research and genealogy Joyce Dixon-Lawson. This edition will focus on how to use less common resources such as state census records, educable school children records, and migration patterns for genealogical research. Tickets are $10 per person.
At noon on Wednesday, September 16, John Marszalek will present "Mississippi's Same-Sex Couples: A History" as part of the streaming-only History Is Lunch series.
At 12 noon on Wednesday, September 9, DeeDee Baldwin, history research librarian at Mississippi State University Libraries, will present "Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi" as part of the streaming-only History Is Lunch series.
Tuesday, August 25, 10:30 a.m. at the Old Capitol & the Two Mississippi Museums, Jackson. The Commission to Redesign the Mississippi State Flag will meet at the Old Capitol Museum and raise each of the remaining designs on the flagpole. Afterwards, the commissioners will meet in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium at the Two Mississippi Museums. Space will be limited and seating is first come, first served. A remote viewing area will be available if necessary.
Join us as we read William F. Winter and the New Mississippi by Charles C. Bolton, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. A native of Grenada, William Winter has served as a state representative, state treasurer, lieutenant governor, and governor.
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.
At noon on Wednesday, August 23, Craig Gill and Seetha Srinivasan will present "University Press of Mississippi at 50" as part of the History Is Lunch series.
At noon on Wednesday, August 19, Josh Green will present "The Jackson Country Club Raid" as part of the History Is Lunch series. The program will stream live on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s Facebook page—https://www.facebook.com/MDAHOfficial—and be available afterwards there as well as on the MDAH YouTube channel—https://www.youtube.com/MDAHVideo and on our History Is Lunch page.
The second "Welty at Home" book club pick is Margaret Walker's signature novel, Jubilee. An award-winning poet, novelist, and English professor at Jackson State University, Walker formed a special literary friendship with Welty. They referred to their friendship as their "sister act." This is the final installment of the three-part discussion of Jubilee. On Tuesday, at noon CST, the Eudora Welty House & Garden will host the live book discussion on Zoom, led by Margaret Walker Center director and civil rights historian Dr. Robby Luckett.