In honor of civil rights icon Medgar Evers’s birthday, admission to the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History will be free on Friday, July 2. Admission will include the special exhibit, I AM A MAN: Civil Rights Photographs in the American South, 1960–1970. Museum staff will highlight Evers’s life and legacy through guided tours at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Face masks and social distancing guidelines are required.
Join us for the final edition of our Summer Music Series program on Sunday, July 11, at 1 p.m., featuring the smooth jazz sounds of saxophonist Jessie Primer III. Admission to the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is free every Sunday. Face masks and social distancing guidelines are required.
Join us for an evening of history and fun at the Two Mississippi Museums! This edition of History Happy Hour highlights photography and features the protest artwork of civil rights activists in the I AM A MAN: Civil Rights Photography in the American South, 1960–1970 special exhibit. Guests will engage in interactive flash tours through the exhibit and the museums about the significance of photography in Mississippi history.
Children and parents are invited to the R.E.A.D. (Read, Engage, and Discover) summer enrichment program at the Two Mississippi Museums on Friday, May 28, at 11 a.m. This first edition will feature a book reading and discussion of Carole Boston Weatherford's "Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer" by guest speaker Rukia Lumumba of the People’s Advocacy Institute. Children will engage in a hands-on activity following the reading. This event is free and will be held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium. Face masks and social distancing guidelines are required.
Join us on Saturday, May 15, for the virtual event, I AM A MAN: Thoughts of Yesterday, as we reflect on the stories of the Mississippi Freedom Movement with civil rights veterans Frank Figgers and Fred Clark Sr.
Join us for our next #UndertheLight as we explore how Jim Crow propaganda influenced the disenfranchisement of African Americans through artifacts displayed in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and a lecture featuring special guest Phoenix Savage of Tougaloo College. The program will be held in the Craig H.
Get ready to chalk your mark on history at the I AM A MAN: Chalk the Walk event on the Entergy Plaza of the Two Mississippi Museums. Guests will design their own outdoor sketches inspired by the protest artwork of civil rights activists featured in the special exhibit I AM A MAN: Civil Rights Photographs in the American South, 1960–1970. Face masks and social distancing guidelines are required.
Admission to the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is free every Sunday. This includes admission to the Solidarity Now exhibit.
At 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 25, join us for a discussion of the local and national impact of the ground-breaking case Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan in 1982. This pivotal decision not only opened the door to admitting men to the first public women’s college in the United States, but also set an important precedent in future gender discrimination cases that led to the admission of women to the Virginia Military Institute in 1996.
On Saturday, February 27, at 11 a.m., Pamela Junior, director of the Two Mississippi Museums, and Katie Blount, director of MDAH, will discuss the I AM A MAN special exhibit with its curator, William Ferris.