Events
Friday, May 31-Sunday, June 2 | Freedom Summer Free Weekend featuring free admission, themed tours, and a scavenger hunt sponsored by Higher Purpose Co. |
Sunday, June 2 | Anderson United Methodist Church Choir concert |
Wednesday, June 12 | History Is Lunch: Marking Freedom Summer |
Friday, June 21 | Themed Tours: 60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer Murders |
Tuesday, July 2 | Themed Tours: Medgar Evers’ Birthday and 60th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act |
Wednesday, July 10 | History Is Lunch: Leslie-Burl McLemore |
Thursday, July 11 | History Happy Hour: Freedom Summer |
Wednesday, July 24 | History Is Lunch: Bruce Watson |
Thursday, July 25 | Themed Tours: Emmett Till’s Birthday |
Wednesday, August 7 | History Is Lunch: "Mississippi Burning" case files |
Sunday, August 11 | Sunday Screening: "An Ordinary Hero" with Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and her son, filmmaker Loki Mulholland |
Learn more about Freedom Summer and how Mississippi was Ground Zero for the Civil Rights Movement. Check out the Freedom Summer video playlist on the MDAH YouTube page: