Grant Makes Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Historical Society Free to the Public: Event to be held in Hattiesburg
Tue, 03/01/2022 - 07:40am
The Mississippi Historical Society, with the support of a grant from the Mississippi Humanities Council, is opening its annual meeting free of charge to the public on Friday, March 11. The program will take place at the Historic Eureka School Museum at 410 E. 6th Street in Hattiesburg and is accessible online at https://www.mississippihistory.org/2022-annual-meeting. The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) is serving as a host for this event.
The program begins at 9 a.m. with presentations on women’s suffrage, African-American women’s history, and civil rights journalism. A second session at 10:30 a.m. will focus on commemorating and preserving local African American history. Speakers include local attorney Glenda Funchess, Hattiesburg councilwoman Deborah Delgado, school historian Stella Mackabee, and Latoya Norman, director of Hattiesburg’s African American Military History Museum.
The Mississippi Historical Society will have an awards luncheon immediately afterward that costs $25 to attend. One of the highlights will be Ellie J. Dahmer receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award for her work to preserve the memory and accomplishments of her late husband, civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, and her promotion of civil rights education.
This Mississippi Humanities Council grant is supported with funding through the National Endowment for the Humanities; any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities or the Mississippi Humanities Council.
The Mississippi Historical Society, founded in 1858 and reorganized in 1890 and 1952–1953, encourages outstanding work in interpreting, teaching, and preserving Mississippi history. The society is a non-profit membership organization that works closely with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The society also publishes the online resource Mississippi History Now. Membership is open to anyone. Benefits include receiving the Journal of Mississippi History and Mississippi History Newsletter. Individual memberships are $35.
For information on becoming a member of the Mississippi Historical society, call 601.576.6936 or visit the society’s website, https://www.mississippihistory.org.