Now through Monday, December 16, at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitor Center. Submission Opening for Scholastic Writing Awards. This competition is open to 7th through 12th grades statewide for public, private, and home school students. The regional competition is hosted by the partnership between the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Eudora Welty House, and is made possible through a grant from the C Spire Foundation. Deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. on Monday, December 16. Submissions must be registered online at www.artandwriting.org and mailed or delivered to the Education and Visitors Center. For more information, call Lee Anne Bryan at 601-353-7762.
Category: Events
Now–October 31, Monday – Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. and Saturdays, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. “This Is Home”: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement. MDAH is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers with an exhibit examining the life and death of the civil rights hero. As Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP from 1954 to 1963, Evers was involved in every major civil rights action in the state. Drawing on photographs, artifacts, documents, and newsfilm footage from the MDAH collection, the exhibit will cover Evers’s early life and family, his career with the NAACP, and his assassination in the driveway of his home on June 11, 1963. For more information call 601-576-6850.
Now – December 15, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitor Center. Life into Fiction: The Murder of Medgar Evers and “Where is the Voice Coming From?” The exhibit will examine how that event impelled Eudora Welty to write one of the most gripping and political stories of her career, as well as the repercussions Welty faced after her story was published in The New Yorker. Pages from Welty’s original manuscript draft, the July 1963 issue of The New Yorker, in which the story was published, photographs, and other related artifacts will be featured. For more information or to reserve a tour, call 601-353-7762 or email Eudora Welty House.
Now–October 31, Monday – Friday, 8 a.m.–5 p.m. and Saturdays, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building. “This Is Home”: Medgar Evers, Mississippi, and the Movement. MDAH is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers with an exhibit examining the life and death of the civil rights hero. As Mississippi field secretary for the NAACP from 1954 to 1963, Evers was involved in every major civil rights action in the state. Drawing on photographs, artifacts, documents, and newsfilm footage from the MDAH collection, the exhibit will cover Evers’s early life and family, his career with the NAACP, and his assassination in the driveway of his home on June 11, 1963. For more information call 601-576-6850.
Friday, October 25, 9:30 a.m. at the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, Jackson. The Board of Trustees of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will hold its regular quarterly meeting. For more information call 601-576-6850.