History Is Lunch: MacArthur Cotton, "Mississippi's Black Cotton"
May 21, 2025 @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Two Mississippi Museums
222 North Street
Jackson, MS 39201
History Is Lunch: MacArthur Cotton, "Mississippi's Black Cotton"
Two Mississippi Museums
222 North Street
Jackson, MS 39201
- Admission: Free
- Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
History Is Lunch: MacArthur Cotton, "Mississippi's Black Cotton"222 North Street
Jackson, MS 39201
Overview
At noon Wednesday, May 21, MacArthur Cotton, a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi from 1961 to 1966, will present “Mississippi’s Black Cotton” as part of the History Is Lunch series. Cotton’s book of the same name explores how Cotton and other civil rights activists like Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer risked their lives in the struggle for freedom. This program will take place in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums and will also stream live on the MDAH Facebook page and YouTube channel. Copies of Mississippi’s Black Cotton will be available for sale with a signing to follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
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The MS Museum of History + the MS Civil Rights Museum With Multiple Spaces, Indoors and Out
222 North Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39201
(601) 576-6855
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Two Mississippi Museums222 North Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39201