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Thavolia Glymph, author and associate professor of history and African and African American studies at Duke University, will deliver the keynote address “Enslaved Women and the Civil War in the Mississippi Valley” at the Old Capitol Museum on Thursday, April 16, at 1:30 p.m.
“Dr. Glymph has devoted her career to the study of slavery and emancipation and is one of the nation’s leading experts on the subject,” said Max Grivno, University of Southern Mississippi history professor. “Her current research on violence against African Americans during the Civil War sheds new light on an important but often overlooked subject.”
A freedom celebration will follow the symposium at 5:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Art and will feature theatrical and musical performances by Jackson State University’s student troupe MADDRAMA and Tougaloo College assistant professor of music Laurence Albert on the Art Garden stage. MADDRAMA will present dramatic readings of letters and other documents written by freedmen. Albert will perform spirituals, including “Sweet Jesus,” “Let Us Break Bread Together,” and “Walk Together Children.” Tours of the special exhibit Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
will be free during the event.
On Friday, April 17, from 9 a.m. to noon,
Tougaloo College will host sessions on emancipation’s impact on education and the emancipation experience in Margaret Walker’s Jubilee.
“As far as black people were concerned, emancipation was only the beginning,” said Michael Williams, dean of the division of social sciences at Tougaloo College. “We desired not only the complete destruction of the institution of slavery in all of its physical fomis, which our ancestors fought to bring about, but freedom from mental slavery as well. The founding of HBCU’s
demonstrated the freedmen’s determination to cultivate on a larger scale what had beforehand occurred in secrecy under enslavement: education for continued liberation and all the rights and privileges that education could secure.”
Mississippi Jubilee is made possible through a partnership between MDAH and the Mississippi Humanities Council, Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, Smith Robertson Museum, Tougaloo College, and the University of Southern Mississippi.
For a complete schedule of speakers and events, go to mdah.state.ms.us/ jubilee. For further information, contact the Mississippi Humanities Council at 601-432-6752 or email srock-off@ mhc.state.ms.us.
Author of Coming of Age in Mississippi Dies at 74
Anne Moody, author of the seminal memoir Coming of Age in Mississippi, died on February 5, 2015, in Gloster, Mississippi. She was 74.
Essie Mae Moody was bom on September 15, 1940, near Centreville, Mississippi. After high school, Moody attended Natchez Junior College on an athletic scholarship and then Tougaloo College on an academic scholarship. While in college she became a leader in the effort to register African American voters. Moody gained national attention during the sit-in at the Jackson Woolworth’s, where she and others endured abuse at the hands of the white crowd opposing the integration attempt.
Anne Moody, courtesy Chrissy Wilson.
After graduating from Tougaloo in 1964, Moody worked at Cornell University for a year before moving to New York City. In 1968 she published Coming of Age in Mississippi, which told the story of
her difficult childhood and eventual involvement with the Civil Rights Movement. The book earned positive reviews and was named best book of 1969 by the National Library Association. In 1975 Moody released Mr. Death: Four Stories, after which she largely avoided the public eye.
“Anne Moody ends Coming of Age in Mississippi with speculation on the eve of the
1964	Freedom Summer,” said her friend Rev. Ed King. “Her words are of doubt and almost bitterness about the possibilities of nonviolence and of any deep change in America. ‘We shall overcome some day. I WONDER. I really WONDER. ’ These words were often
repeated at news of her death by many of her friends and comrades in the Civil Rights Movement.
“But I also knew Anne as a very spiritual and deep-thinking person. At her funeral I read a different statement from this book. In 1963 after the Woolworth’s sit-in, city jail, even the fairground prison camp, the assassination of Medgar Evers, being turned away from white-only churches, Anne and several black friends are welcomed and seated at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. Moody writes that after the worship service the minister, the Rev. Chris Keller, ‘...invited us to visit again ... and I began to have a little hope.’”