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On Friday, March 6, 2026 I completed my term as president of the Mississippi Historical Society. I passed the gavel to our new president, Keena Graham, superintendent of the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument, Jackson.
Photos by Mississippi Historical Society & MDAH
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Spring has sprung! Check out our #LittleFreeLibrary sitting pretty among the flowers. 🥰 #MSLibraries #LibraryLife
ALT Our Little Free Library sits between two blooming bushes of pink flowers. The Little Free Library is a green box with a black sloped roof on top of a wooden post. The box has a door with a window looking inside on multiple books.
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April 6, 2021, is National Library Workers Day #NLWD, a time to recognize library professionals for their expertise and leadership skills in transforming lives and communities through education and lifelong learning.
Thank you to our talented team at UM Libraries!
ALT Text: Libraries work because we do. NLWS National Library Workers Day. Illustrations of people reading books.
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“Belle Collective” first aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network earlier this year and stars Latrice Rogers, as well as Dr. Antoinette Liles, Lateshia Pearson, Marie Hamilton-Abston and Tambra Cherie, who all hail from Mississippi. ow.ly/H8Y330rCSfr
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Nissan is sponsoring free weekends to the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in February starting Saturday, February 6.
mdah.ms.gov/news/nissan-spon…
#BlackHistoryMonth #VisitMSresponsibily @visitms @VisitJacksonMS
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NEXT STOP, MISSISSIPPI: Your source for information about events and attractions across the state. Each week we will highlight well-known and unknown places in MS with the best food, parks, music, and arts. Tune in Fridays at 10 a.m. on MPB Think Radio!zcu.io/vyRR
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Civil rights pioneer James Meredith, 87, remembers the exact moment at age 15, when he discovered that Southern whites viewed him as an inferior. He later forced Ole Miss to integrate. Now he and his wife navigate a pandemic, protests and a new Mississippi reut.rs/2WtP5CI
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Quick reminder! The 'Lost Mississippi' #LunchLecture is today at noon! Hope to see you there.
Join us tomorrow at noon for the next talk in our #LunchLecture series! Lost Mississippi is co-hosted by @YazooLibrary, presented by author Mary Carol Miller, and made possible by a grant through @MSHumanities. Check out bit.ly/mlcZoomlectures for more information! #MSLibraries
ALT Zoom into summer with MLC's Lunch Lecture Series. Visit bit.ly/mlcZoomlectures for more information & links to join. July 17 at 12 noon. Lost Mississippi. Cohosted by Yazoo Library Association. Presented by Mary Carol Miller, author of Lost Landmarks of Mississippi.
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USM History professor, Dr. Heather Stur, conducted much of the research for her book 'Saigon at War' on site as a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam. The book looks through an often ignored prism to more thoroughly understand the U.S. - Vietnam conflict. >> bit.ly/3d6fYDa
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Victoria “Vic” Jones was recently named archives and special collections librarian for the Beulah Culbertson Archives and Special Collections inside Fant Memorial Library at The W. bit.ly/2C1lCIS
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COMING AUGUST 1: MILE MARKER is a podcast taken from the popular MPB Television series, MISSISSIPPI ROADS. We take you on a journey through Mississippi and introduce you to unique people, places, and things. #MPBOnline #MPB50
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On this day in 1903, British author George Orwell was born in India. Known for his fictional titles "Animal Farm" & "1984," Orwell was also respected for his non-fiction writing on politics & culture. More in our historic newspaper archives. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l… #ChronAm #otd
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“A massive coil of clouds.” ☁️ 🌀
In the last 120 years, hurricane forecasting has dramatically, improved thanks to advances in weather satellites.
Learn how researchers with @NASAEarth use them: go.nasa.gov/2zWAB6t
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#HBCU We Made History 🔥
ICYMI: @GoJSUTigers Thomas “Snacks” Lee (@BigHomie_Tom) made history after being named the winner of the 2020 ESPY Award for the Can’t-Stop-Watching Moment of the Year #SWAC #BuildingChampionsForLife
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Religious Freedom Week continues through June 29! Check out the Freedom First Podcast for soundcloud.com/usccbclips/se… conversations about a variety of issues related to religious liberty.
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Even in small towns in Mississippi, we have the power to create new narratives for our communities. We were inspired by the work of Philadelphia and organized the Emmett Till Memorial Commission led by Jerome G. Little the 1st black President of the Board of Supervisors.
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There are just 74 pages not started in the Mary Church Terrell papers, and #Juneteenth is the perfect day to transcribe them. Terrell devoted her life to the advancement of African Americans and women, co-founded @NAACP and Natl Assoc of Colored Women go.usa.gov/xwPJ3
ALT Mary Church Terrell's engraving from the front page of the "Colored American" newspaper printed on February 17, 1900. Terrell's face is in profile. She wears her hair in a bun and a high-necked silk dress. The caption reads "Mrs Mary Church Terrell, President of the National Association of Colored Women. Her address on "Woman Suffrage" the Hit of the Recent Gathering of America's Brainiest Women."
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On June 19, 1865, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, black people were freed from slavery. Today is a significant day in Black History! Happy Juneteenth!
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[COHCH at USM] In this episode of Mississippi Moments: Emmett Till's death ignited the Civil Rights Movement back in 1955. In this episode, civil rights icon Cleveland Sellers, Jr. recalls how they were inspired to confront systemic racism. Listen here >> bit.ly/2AIBY9n
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NEW: In honor of #Juneteenth, Dr. Joseph Stevenson writes about the Black Mississippi man who became a nuclear physicist and invented technology used in today's cell phones—that capture so many violent acts and inspire anti-racism efforts.
mississippifreepress.org/392…