Topic: America 250

In commemoration of America’s 250th, these presentations explore America’s founding and Mississippi’s role in advancing the ideals on which our nation was founded.

Slavery in Colonial Natchez: Cotton, Race, and Wealth before the Old South
by Christian Pinnen
Ida B. Wells: The Mother of the American Human Rights Movement
by Dr. Cassie Sade Turnipseed
The American Revolution in the Gulf South
by Max Grivno
The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
by Robert Luckett