MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM SHOWCASES BLACK SCULPTORThe author reports that a sculpture of artist Richmond Barthe is featured in the African American Art Gallery located at the Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi as part o...
You wind their way through the exhibits, passing through the central This Little Light of Mine exhibit, from where strains of the song filter throughout the whole museum.This museum doesn’t shy away from the brutality of the treatment of African Americans. Some of the exhibits are graphic, ...
While some have been wary of the story by University of Alabama graduate Kathryn Stockett because it depicts Black females in demeaning, stereotypical roles, others point to the compelling plot and the strong African-American characters. Filming took place in Mississippi, and the main host cities ...
was the firstland-grant collegein theUnited Statesfor African American students, and it continues to be prominent among the country’shistorically black universities(HBUs).Jackson State University(opened 1877) also is a long-standing, nationally recognized HBU and Mississippi’s premier urban institutio...
Housed partially within several stainless steel pods designed by Frank Gehry (on a bad day, according to one local), this small museum complex celebrates… Smith Robertson Museum Mississippi Housed in Mississippi's first public school for African American children is the alma mater of Richard Wright...
Purchased by Derrick Evans in an effort to prevent its demolition, this building that speaks to the African American experience is now beautifully restored as a museum and community center thanks to a partnership including the National Park Service African American Civil Rights Grant Program, Turkey ...
the world’s first humanlung transplantwas performed there in 1963. In 1962, over the objection of state officials, the U.S. Supreme Court forced the university to acceptracial integrationand admit African American studentJames H. Meredith. The School of Accountancy, established in 1979, was one...
Ladner. Located at 507 Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, the marker sits within the city’sSixth Street Museum Districtalong with several sites dedicated to the history of the "Hub City’s" Black community, including theAfrican American Military History Museum, theEureka Schooland theS...
Discovery Park of Americais a one-of-a-kind museum in northwestern Tennessee that features exhibits about Native American history, space exploration, dinosaurs, natural history, and loads more, as well as a 50-acre heritage park featuring gardens, a grist mill, and a manmade river. ...
and many were driven out by violence only a few years later. Learn about the first African American men to serve on Mississippi's state legislature during and just after Reconstruction. A few of these men, such as Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce, are relatively well-known. The vast majo...