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MDAH, SouthDocs Partner on Documentary
On August 6,1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act, one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in United States history. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of this watershed event, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History partnered with the Southern Documentary Project, an institute of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, to produce an original short film, “50 Years and Forward: The Voting Rights Act in Mississippi.”
“At the Southern Documentary Project we’re dedicated to telling Mississippi stories through film, and MDAH with its extensive archival holdings is an ideal partner for us,” said Becca Walton, associate director of projects at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and co-producer of the movie. “We hope our film will help introduce the public to the collections, like the Moncrief Photograph Collection, that tell such a powerful story about the struggle for civil rights in the state.”
The documentary film traces some of
the events that led to the passage of the act through historical materials and contemporary interviews with eight key players: Robert G. Clark Jr., the first African American to be elected to the Mississippi legislature since Reconstruction, Flonzie Brown Wright, the first African American woman to hold office in Mississippi since Reconstruction, former Mississippi governor William F. Winter,
Mississippi state senators John Horhn and David L.
Jordan, former Jackson City Council president Leslie-Burl McLemore,
Civil Rights activists Rims Barber and Rev.
Wendell Paris of New Hope Baptist Church, and Mississippi State University professor of political science K.C. Morrison.
The department premiered the film on September 22 to a standing-room-only crowd of nearly 150 people at the William F. Winter Archives Building. A panel discussion moderated by Andy Harper, one of the film’s producers, followed the screening. Panelists Rims Barber, Leslie-Burl McLemore, and Flonzie Brown Wright discussed their experiences before and after the Voting Rights Act and answered questions from the audience.
The twelve-minute documentary can be viewed on the department’s YouTube channel, MDAH Video, along with other short films and documentaries produced by the department.
Social Studies Teachers Workshop Nov. 6
The thirty-first annual MDAH Social Studies Teachers Workshop is set for Friday, November 6. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson. This year’s theme “Hardship,
Conflict, and Change: Mississippi 1930—
1954” will examine how Mississippi and its citizens were affected by the Great Depression and two world wars.
The conference will begin with an overview of the New Deal by Connie Lester, associate professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando. Morning presentations will include “The South in World War II” by Chad Daniels, director of the Mississippi Armed
Forces Museum at Camp Shelby, and “Shift of African American Roles in World War
II	and Korean War" by Charles Chamberlain, president of
Historia LLC in New Orleans.
The 1 p.m. session will feature concurrent topics—William Faulkner,
diversification of Mississippi’s economics, and the rise of the Dixiecrats. “Documenting Separate But Equal in Mississippi Schools” by MDAH architectural historian Jennifer Baughn will follow at 2 p.m. and an overview of MDAH online and educational resources will conclude the day.
Registration is S40 and includes lunch. A .5 CEU credit is available through Mississippi College. To register, go to www.mdah. state.ms.us or call 601-576-6800 by Friday, October 25.
The Social Studies Teachers Workshop is sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
in conjunction with the Mississippi College School of Continuing Education, Mississippi Department of Education, Mississippi Historical Society, and Mississippi Junior Historical Society
In partnership with MDAH, this year’s Mississippi Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference will be held on Thursday, November 5, at 9 a.m. in Old Capitol Museum. The MCSS Conference sessions will focus on “Social Studies in Mississippi: College, Career, and Civic Life (C3)” and include field trips to Jackson area historic sites/resources.
For more information email Chuck Yarborough, MCSS president, at cyarborough@ themsms.org or Mario Hendrix, MCSS treasurer, at mhendrix 17@gmail.com.
“Leflore School Grades 1 and 2,” School Photographs (Mississippi), 1920s-1980s digital collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History.