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■SI EWSLETTER
A PUBLICATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY
Fall 2015
Volume 57, No. 3
Hundreds Attend Evers Lecture
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Glenn Hutchins Fill Historic Galloway Church
Nearly eight hundred people turned out for the 2015 Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture on October 13. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (pictured below right), director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research and the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, was joined onstage by Glenn Hutchins, co-founder of Silver Lake and chair of the Hutchins Center, to present “The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross.” Originally scheduled for the Old Capitol Museum, the lecture had to be moved to historic Galloway Church in downtown Jackson accommodate the number of attendees.
“Henry Louis Gates is one of America’s most distinguished historians and has an extraordinary reach thanks to his leadership at the Hutchins Center, and his books, films, and TV series,” said Reuben Anderson, former Mississippi Supreme Court justice and member of the MDAH Board ofTrustees.
Gates is the Emmy Award-winning producer and host of the six-part PBS docu-
mentary series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013) and hosts the PBS television series
Finding Your Roots.
The Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, one year after Myrlie Evers made an extraordinary gift
to the people of Mississippi when she presented the Medgar and Myrlie Evers papers to MDAH. The series is supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
In 2014 the foundation awarded $2.3 million to MDAH to support programming for the 2 Mississippi Museums project and fund a partnership between MDAH, the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute, and the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.
Preservation Grants Available through CLG Program
In 2015, MDAH awarded close to $75,000 to preservation projects in sixteen different Certified Local Government Communities. The CLG program is a federal-state-local partnership that promotes historic preservation at the grassroots level and
helps communities deal with preservation needs.
CLG communities are eligible for annual matching grants for such diverse projects as the restoration of historic buildings; historical, architectural, or archaeological site inventory
work; preparation of nominations to the National Register of Historic Places; educational programs; and staff support for new historic preservation commissions.
The application for the 2016 round of CLG grants is now
available. The first deadline is Friday, November 6,2015. The complete grant application is due Friday, February 26, 2016. For more information, contact CLG Grant Administrator Barry White at 601-576-6953 or bwhite@mdah.state.ms.us.