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Workshop to Examine Tum-of-Centtiry Mississippi
The thirtieth annual Social Studies Teachers Workshop is set for Friday, November 7, 8 a.m.^ p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. Presentations will explore the theme “Turn-of-the-Century Mississippi.” The coming of the twentieth century saw great changes throughout the state—social, economic, and industrial. Mississippi’s constitution was rewritten and adopted in 1890 to codify the privileges of white men and institutionalize the impediments to women and African American citizens. The United States and Mississippi were drawn into a world war. Natural disaster ravaged the fertile Delta counties. And a new, native art form was bom in the blues.
Scheduled are political analyst Jere Nash, “The 1890 Constitution and the Rise of Jim Crow Mississippi”; Mississippi Armed Forces Museum director Chad Daniels, “Mississippi in WWI”;
University of Southern Mississippi associate professor Pamela Tyler, “Woman Suffrage in Mississippi”; MDAF1 outreach programs coordinator Claire Gwaltney, “1927 Mississippi Flood Lesson”; and Mississippi Arts Commission
arts education director Charlotte Smelser, “Blues
in Mississippi Curriculum.” Attendees may also choose one of the following: State Capitol curator Brenda Davis,
“Mississippi’s State Capitol”; MDAH reference librarian De’Niecechsi Layton, “Genealogy in the Classroom”; and University of South-'ern Mississippi associate ^professor Deanne Nuwer, “Watering Places along the ississippi Gulf Coast: The Roaring 1920s.”
“This promises to be a 'great workshop with lots of information useful in the classroom,” said Stacey Ever-fett, Museum Division director of education. “We also encourage all attendees to take advantage of the continuing education credit available through Mississippi College.”
Find the registration form online at mdah.state.ms.us.
Museums Construction on Schedule
Summer heat pushed some of the ongoing construction of the 2 Mississippi Museums project into the early morning hours. Daytime temperatures were too high to allow the concrete to set correctly, so crews poured basement floors beginning at 2 a.m. The building shape began to emerge in late May with the appearance of basement floors and walls, and the first floor of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum will
be visible from North Street in October.
The first and second floors of the museums are scheduled to be completed by spring of 2015, when roof work is expected to begin.
Foundation work for the public parking garage has also begun. Jefferson Street between Amite and Mississippi Streets is closed for work to connect the 2MM building to sewer and water lines. The road is set to reopen in time for the state fair.
USCT Cavalry Reenactors to Appear at HJC
Historic Jefferson College will again play host for the Black and Blue Civil War Living History program. On Saturday, October 25, beginning at 11 a.m., reenactors portraying enslaved Africans, Union and Confederate soldiers, and other local personalities will present vignettes about the African American experience in Mississippi during the Civil War.
New to the program in its seventh year will be the appearance of a living history group with members from Florida, Georgia, and Michigan who portray the Third United States Colored Cavalry, a unit active from March 1864 through January 1866 and originally organized from the 3rd Mississippi Cavalry of African Descent. The group will tell the history of the actions in Mississippi, northeast Louisiana, and southeast Arkansas in which the Third U.S. Colored Cavalry participatedd. The day will finish with a demonstration of one of those cavalry actions beginning at 3 p.m.
Black and Blue is organized by Ser Se-shsh Ab Heter-CM Boxley, coordinator of the Friends of the Forks of the Road, Inc. For more information call 601-442-2901.