In honor of Medgar Evers’ birthday, the Two Mississippi Museums will be free to the public thanks to the Foundation for the Mid South. Education staff from the Two Mississippi Museums will host flash tours at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Evers was a key civil rights activist and the first Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement for Colored People. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
Join us at noon on Wednesday, April 8, as Alcorn State University English professor J. Janice Coleman highlights the Hansberry family’s ties to Alcorn A&M College—the oldest public institution of higher learning for African Americans in Mississippi. Though best known because Lorraine Hansberry wrote A Raisin in the Sun, the first Broadway play by an African American woman