Events

Through the Prison to College Pipeline, founded to provide access to college curriculum to state inmates in Mississippi, the Margaret Walker Center has the opportunity to bring the exhibition A Place for All People to the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility and Parchman Penitentiary. The exhibition details the history of the National Museum of African American […]

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's "Celebrating African American History & Culture" series that will be on display during February, Black History Month, in the library galleries.

Part of The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture series.

Part of The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County’s Celebrating African American History & Culture series.

Partnership with the William Winter Institute to observe Black History Month with a screening of a film about the Restorative Justice movement, which works to combat racial discrimination in schools by addressing trauma that often leads to misbehavior and delinquency. Screening of "Circles" will begin at 4:15PM on Malco Screen 1.

Part of the Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County Library's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series. Lecture by Dr. Charles Bolton titled "Camp Van Dorn, WWII Mobilization, & Black Troops in the Deep South."  

The Mississippi Humanities Council will present its 2018 Public Humanities Awards at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. The Public Humanities Awards recognize outstanding work by Mississippians in bringing the insights of the humanities to public audiences. Details about this year's award recipients and ordering tickets can be found here.

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series.

Join the Mississippi Humanities Council, Rethink Mississippi, and the Women's Foundation of Mississippi at Hal and Mal's in Jackson on February 20 for the second installment in our spring series "Emerging Mississippi." Each month, we'll look at areas in which young people are making a difference in Mississippi. On February 20, we'll focus on young people in business and […]

Annual ecumenical Black History Celebration. The 2018 celebration features Greenwood native, Dr. Tonea Stewart, actress and dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Alabama State University. Stewart will talk about the importance, as a black actress, of choosing her roles carefully to provide positive representations of African American characters on film and […]

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's Celebrating African American History & Culture Series.

Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and went on to become one of the highest-profile voices for civil rights in the nineteenth century. On Tuesday, February 27, biographer Paula J. Giddings will present “Ida B. Wells and the Campaign against Lynching” at the Old Capitol Museum. Wells attended Rust College and became a teacher. […]

Part of Library of Hattiesburg, Petal, and Forrest County's "Celebrating African American History & Culture" series that will be on display during February, Black History Month, in the library galleries.

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