Join us for a gallery talk at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 21, in the Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People's Campaign special exhibit. Megan Bankston, Two Mississippi Museum curator of collections, will discuss the Mississippi artifacts on display to complement the story told in the exhibit. A guided tour of the exhibit will also take place. For more information, call 601-576-6580, visit or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
At noon on Wednesday, September 9, Ralph Eubanks, author of When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, will examine the history and economy of the Mississippi Delta as part of the History Is Lunch series. Eubanks, faculty fellow and writer in residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi