At noon on Wednesday, December 10, historian Justin Randolph will present “Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside” as part of the History Is Lunch series. Randolph will explore how law enforcement shaped life in the segregated South and how expanded police power between the Civil War and the civil rights movement reinforced systems of racial control. Randolph, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, is the author of Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. This program 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 Mississippi Law will be available for purchase, and a book signing will follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
Join us at noon on Wednesday, November 19, for History Is Lunch as teachers and students who helped lay the foundation for Head Start share their stories of the program’s early years. What began in 1965 as an experiment in early childhood education has grown into a nationwide program that today serves nearly 20,000 low-income children and families across Mississippi.