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HISTORY
IM EWSLETTER
Summer 2014
Volume 56, No. 2
Freedom Summer Exhibit at MDAH
STAND UP!
Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964
An exhibit at the William F. Winter Archives & History Building examining the courage, violence, and promise of the “long, hot summer.”
Robert Moses To Open Exhibit with June 2 Lecture
In the summer of 1964 hundreds of northern college students, most of them white, joined with local African Americans in communities across Mississippi to register voters, conduct Freedom Schools, and promote civil rights. Beginning in June MDAH will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Freedom Summer with an original exhibit at the Winter Building, diverse programming at its sites, and an address at the Old Capitol by an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.
At noon on Monday, June 2, Dr. Robert P. Moses will give the keynote address for the 2014 Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series. A leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations, Moses became a principal organizer of the Freedom Summer Project. He was also instrumental in establishing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party that would challenge Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the Democratic National
Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in August of 1964.
Moses went on to work for the Ministry of Education in Tanzania, East Africa, and returned to the U.S. to pursue a doctoral degree in philosophy at Harvard University. In 1982 he received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship that he used to develop the Algebra Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving student achievement through mathematics. He serves as director of the project’s materials development program.
“Bob Moses is a hero for our
state and our nation,” said Congressman Bennie G. Thompson, “a man who has shed blood, sweat, and tears to ensure the rights guaranteed every American. Long after Freedom Summer Dr. Moses continued to work with the children of Mississippi to give them the tools they need to succeed in our modern world. It is a high honor to welcome him back to deliver the 2014 Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture.”
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MDAH Director To Retire
H.T. Holmes, director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History since 2005. has announced his plan to retire early next year.
“Hank Holmes will leave a remarkable legacy of innovation and growth.” said MDAH Board of Trustees president Kane Ditto. “Under his leadership the department developed its electronic records section into a national model, greatly expanded th’e state’s commitment to preserve and honor the Mississippi American Indian history, oversaw a S26 million historic preservation grant program in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, opened the Eudora Welty House and Garden, and is now in the midst of its largest and most significant construction project of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.”
Holmes began his association with MDAH in 1969
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