The Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) is partnering with the Mississippi Film Office and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to bring free, high-quality documentary film screenings to public audiences each month for the next year. Up first will be Promised Land: The Story of Mound Bayou, a documentary film about a small town deep […]
Landmarks in Humanities: Teaching Architecture, History and Culture Using Historic Places will occur over three weeks hosted by The Alex Foundation. A financial gift from the Steve Azar St. Cecilia Foundation to Alex Foundation will give rising 7th grade students in the Delta the opportunity to tour The Belmont 1857 (formerly Belmont Plantation) beginning July […]
Free summer youth workshop engaging middle school students with local architecture, history and culture. Programming will take place at The Belmont 1857, a former plantation home in Greenville and the Grammy Museum Mississippi.
The Rosedale Freedom Project will begin with two 5-day intensive workshop for 7-12th grader students during the Freedom Summer Program. Eligible students are 7-12th graders in West Bolivar and Sunflower Counties. The workshops will be facilitated by Mississippi based Lanitx Poet C.T. Salazar. The culmination of the project will be a public showcase in […]
The Coleman High School Oral History project will conduct a comprehensive history of Greenville, MS Coleman High, that closed and converted to a middle school in 1970 as voiced by former students. The project will take place over 4-5 years. A recruitment training workshop is scheduled during the 3rd biannual Coleman Reunion July 14-16 to […]
Free summer youth workshop engaging middle school students with local architecture, history and culture. Programming will take place at The Belmont 1857, a former plantation home in Greenville and the Grammy Museum Mississippi.
Free summer youth workshop engaging middle school students with local architecture, history and culture. Programming will take place at The Belmont 1857, a former plantation home in Greenville and the Grammy Museum Mississippi.
Our next Ideas on Tap event will be July 27th from 5:30 – 7pm at Soule Coffee and Bubble Tea on Old Canton Road. The topic will be “Whats going on with boys today?” and will feature a discussion panel and question/answer session. To learn more about Ideas on Tap, contact our program and outreach […]
Highway 61: Traveling America's Music Highway exhibit will tell the important history of Highway 61 and its impact on American music. The exhibit will be on display at GRAMMY Museum Mississippi in Cleveland, MS, through 2024. August 11th – Exhibit opens to the public at 10:00 AM
The Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) is partnering with the Mississippi Film Office and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to bring free, high-quality documentary film screenings to public audiences each month for the next year. Up next is " It's in the Voices," by filmmaker Field Humphrey. August 13th at 2:0m Clint Bagley sits […]
The Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) will partner with the Mississippi Film Office and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History to screen It’s in the Voices, a documentary film that tells the story of a 1970 oral history project in Washington County, Mississippi, that examined topics regarding black educators in the Mississippi Delta and the […]
This project began in the early 1970s in Columbus, Mississippi. There, Dr. Berkley Hudson and his childhood friends discovered the life’s work of local “pictureman” Otis Noel (O.N.) Pruitt. They purchased the collection of 142,000 negatives in 1987 and spent the next 30 years archiving, researching, and preserving the work. Over those years, Hudson has […]
