

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Event | MacArthur Cotton and John Obee: Mississippi's Black Cotton
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join authors MacArthur Cotton and John Obee for a conversation about Mississippi’s Black Cotton, a powerful new book highlighting the often-overlooked young Black activists who fueled the civil rights movement. Cotton reflects on risking his life in Mississippi—the era’s most repressive state—and on working alongside leaders like Medgar Evers and Fannie Lou Hamer. He also honors the many unnamed foot soldiers whose courage made change possible. Despite imprisonment, terror, and lasting scars, Cotton’s story is one of resilience and continued activism. This event offers a rare, first-person look at the everyday people who made civil rights history.

Details: https://aadl.org/node/663850
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ann-arbor/author-event-|-macarthur-cotton-and-john-obee-mississippis-black-cotton/200029494162757
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 10

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029494162757?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=ann+arbor-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Ann Arbor
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Ann Arbor District Library
- **lat**: 42.27823
- **long**: -83.74566
- **full address**: Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S 5th Ave,Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Ann Arbor District Library (https://allevents.in/org/ann-arbor-district-library/26072157)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S 5th Ave,Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Ann Arbor District Library
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Author Event | MacArthur Cotton and John Obee: Mississippi's Black Cotton ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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