Behind the Big House program & tour
Behind the Big House: Preserving the Histories and Architecture of Slavery is an educational program initiated by Preserve Marshall County & Holly Springs, Inc. held in conjunction with the Annual […]
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Icons of Statehood comes to Winona
Winona- Montgomery County Public Library 115 N Quitman St, Winona, MS, United StatesOn December 10, 1817, Mississippi became the nation's twentieth state. Starting in 2016 a new traveling exhibit featuring Mississippi's first constitution and the first U.S. flag to include a star […]
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Speaker Bureau: The Civil Rights Movement in Contemporary Times
Fondren Presbyterian Church 3220 Old Canton Rd, Jackson , MSFlonzie Wright Brown has been involved in the Civil Rights Movement since 1963. Her presentation examines the role of youths in the movement, the importance of women in the struggle, […]
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Speakers Bureau: The Civil Rights Movement in Contemporary Times
Fondren Presbyterian Church 3220 Old Canton Rd, Jackson , MSFlonzie Wright Brown has been involved in the Civil Rights Movement since 1963. Her presentation examines the role of youths in the movement, the importance of women in the struggle, […]
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Speakers Bureau: Music of the War Between the States
Brice's Crossroads Battlefield 2680 Natchez Trace Parkway , Tupelo, MS, United StatesMusic of this period played on the Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, banjo-mier and wooden spoons. Period clothing worn. Audience may help play the spoons. Mr. Arinder has studied Early American and […]
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The Lebanese in America traveling exhibit
The Museum of Mississippi Delta 1608 Highway 82 West , Greenwood , MSThe Lebanese in America traveling exhibit is coming to The Museum of the Mississippi Delta in Greenwood April 17-May 12, 2017. The exhibit contains eight narrative pop-up displays with photographs, […]
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Documentary-Race Relations in Yazoo City
Mississippi Public Broadcasting will air “Yazoo Revisited: Integration and Segregation in a Deep Southern Town,” a documentary film looking back at the history and integration of Yazoo City schools and […]
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Speakers Bureau: How to Teach Blues in the Schools
Soule' Steam Works 1808 4th Street, Meridian , MSDr. Willis teaches educators how to integrate blues education into their lesson plans for social studies, geography and history. She gives them background information, current events, historical landmarks that are […]
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Prying Open The Door
Train Depot 308 Newman Street , Hattiesburg , MSPrying Open The Door. The desegregation and resegregation of Hattiesburg High. Hattiesburg High students are documenting and sharing oral histories of the racial desegregation and resegregation of their high school.
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R.O.O.T.S. of Sunflower County
B.B. King Museum 400 2nd St, Indianola, MS, United States“The R.O.O.T.S of Sunflower County”,19 African American young men in Sunflower County are a part of the Sunflower County System Change Project that focuses on narrative change. ‘Story for All’ […]
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Speakers Bureau: A Look at Mande through Traditional Music
Delta Blues Museum 1 Blues Alley , Clarksdale , MSThis presentation will give the listener a glimpse of the Mande Culture of West Africa. In the tradition of the Mande, the history and culture is orally preserved in the […]
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Mississippi River Basin Model Presentation
Buddy Butts Park 6180 McRaven Road , Jackson , MSThe Mississippi River Basin model is located in Jackson, MS is a scale replica of the Mississippi River Basin. The Site, which sprawls over 200 acres, was built by local […]
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