‘Red and Bootjack’ Marker Shines Light on Duck Hill Lynching, Remembers Victims
Filmmaker Talameika Brice coordinated with others to establish a trail marker honoring two Duck Hill, Miss., lynching victims known as Bootjack and Red.
Filmmaker Talameika Brice coordinated with others to establish a trail marker honoring two Duck Hill, Miss., lynching victims known as Bootjack and Red.
SR1’s C.O.O.L. Talks video series, designed for both adults and children, features interviews with experts on various academic topics and provides information on educational resources for students and parents.
For the second day in a roll, the breakdown in operations at the O.B. Curtis Water Treatment Center in Jackson, Miss., has caused water pressure reduction throughout the capital city, disrupting activities as the city and state declared a state of emergency.
Dr. Shawn Lambert and his team will place Interactive panels at the locations of their digs, explaining the objects found there and the purposes of the buildings that once stood at their locations.
Mississippi Makers Fest is an all-day festival centered around the Entergy Plaza at the Two Mississippi Museums from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7.
These centennial tributes aim to showcase the range of Andrew Bucci’s art, who started creating in the mid-to-late 1930s and continued through the 2000s, learning something new every decade—always evolving, always creating. The History Is Lunch program on Jan. 12 is free and open to the public; it will be livestreamed as well on the Mississippi Department of Archives and History’s Facebook page, and posted on the department’s YouTube channel. The “Emerging Grace” exhibit runs through March 12 at the Winter Building and is open to the public on Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Tuesday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The City of Jackson is making efforts to stabilize the Jackson Zoo, which has Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ accreditation and is looking forward to getting The Zoological Association of America’s accreditation.
George Raymond was a teenager when he came to Mississippi from New Orleans to fight for Black freedom and voting rights. He could have been driving the car instead of James Chaney on Father’s Day, 1964, when the KKK killed three civil rights workers in Neshoba County.
In March 2021, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced that it has repatriated 403 Native American remains and 83 lots of burial objects to the Chickasaw Nation, the largest return of human remains in the state’s history and the first for the department. The repatriation started a year ago in January 2020 and is ongoing as the department is about halfway through the process.
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