Events

At noon on Wednesday, October 14, James Andrew Whitaker, assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi, will discuss his fieldwork in Sinoe County, Liberia, and Mississippi as part of the History Is Lunch series. During the 1830s and 1840s, the Mississippi State Colonization Society created a colony called “Mississippi in Africa”

At noon on Wednesday, October 7, Gautham Rao, associate professor of history at American University in Washington, DC, will discuss rebellions, fugitivity, activism, and the legal systems that challenged them as part of the History Is Lunch series. In Rao’s book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, he offers a new interpretation of the history of policing in the United States

Join us on Saturday, October 3, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum to experience Mississippi during Colonial times. This free America250 event will feature living history demonstrations by the Atlanta Historic Dance group, educational presentations on the Marquis de Lafayette, and hands-on activities

Join us for the free Mississippi Made gallery talk at 11 a.m. on Thursday, October 15, in the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Exhibition Hall at the Two Mississippi Museums. In connection with America250, this family-friendly event will highlight Mississippi’s legacy in entertainment.

Celebrate the 50th birthday of the Grand Village of the Natchez Indians on Saturday, September 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cake and punch will be served. Share stories, photos, and memories of your favorite moments at Grand Village over the past 50 years on the Grand Village’s Facebook page.

Join a monthlong scavenger hunt in the Eudora Welty House & Garden. Kids and kids-at-heart are invited to participate in the Ghosts in the Garden Scavenger Hunt throughout October. Visitors can pick up a scavenger hunt sheet from the Little Free Library

Join us for Live Jazz in the Welty Garden on Thursday, October 22, at the Eudora Welty House & Garden. The grounds open at 5 p.m., and music begins at 5:30 p.m. This event will feature free live music from the Mississippi Christian University Jazz Band and the Soul City Swingers.

Bring your mats for free adult yoga on Tuesdays, September 29 through October 27, from 5:30 to 6 p.m. Certified yoga instructor Maya Morris will lead these classes, beginning with an intention-based on a quote from Eudora Welty's writing.

Join us at noon on Wednesday, September 30, for the inaugural Bob Moses Lecture Series during History Is Lunch. Historian Charles Payne will explore how civil rights activist Ella Baker influenced Moses’s approach to organizing, from his work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to the founding of the Algebra Project. Payne, Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, will trace the connection between Baker’s grassroots, relationship-driven approach and Moses’s lifelong commitment to collective empowerment through education and organizing. This free event will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and will stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Copies of I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.

At noon on Wednesday, September 23, Chris Danielson, independent historian, will offer a reassessment of the civil rights movement and the individuals who shaped it as part of the History Is Lunch series. Danielson’s book, Brother Outsider, Brother Insider, examines the life and work of Lawrence Thomas Guyot Jr.