JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Longtime civil rights activist Bob Moses is scheduled to speak Monday at the opening of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s new exhibit “Stand Up!”: Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964.”
Moses, a director of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, will speak at noon at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building in Jackson.
Drawing on photographs, artifacts, documents, and film footage of events during the “long, hot summer.” A replica school room modeled from photographs of Freedom Schools will give visitors an idea of the conditions volunteers and students worked under.
It also tells the story of the murdered Civil Rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner and the creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
JACKSON, Mississippi — The state of Mississippi expects to select a general contractor Sept. 26 for phase one for work on the Mississippi Museum of History and the accompanying Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
The Mississippi Business Journal reports that the contract award is a prelude to an Oct. 24 groundbreaking.
The Museum of History will tell the story of Mississippi from its pre-Columbian past, its evolution as an agrarian region with the arrival of the first European settlers and on to today’s emergence as a diverse and innovative manufacturing center… […]
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