Did you know the phrase "Black Power" originated in Mississippi? Learn more about its true meaning and other civil rights history at an upcoming workshop at the Two Mississippi Museums. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Learning Toolkit Workshop: Exploring the Role of the Black Power in the Civil Rights Movement will be held Saturday, April 26, from 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. SNCC veteran and film producer Judy Richardson and historian Emilye Crosby will lead a workshop, examining documents and audiovisual materials detailing the role of Black Power in SNCC’s movement building. This event is part of the SNCC & Grassroots Organizing discussion series and is in collaboration with the Two Mississippi Museums. For more information, visit this link.
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.