# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Evers Lecture: Ambassador Andrew Young
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: Ambassador Andrew Young will deliver the Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 3, in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Two Mississippi Museums. He will reflect on his life in public service and his longstanding ties to Mississippi in conversation with Ebony Lumumba, department chair and associate professor of English at Jackson State University. Ambassador Young first met Medgar Evers through his work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He later joined James Meredith’s March Against Fear; accompanied Black students as they entered previously segregated schools in Grenada alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966; and helped launch the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968. He later served as Ambassador to the United Nations and as mayor of Atlanta. This free event is sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email info@mdah.ms.gov.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/jackson/evers-lecture-ambassador-andrew-young/200030577458224
- **Event Categories**: Nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Jackson
- **state**: MS
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Two Mississippi Museums
- **lat**: 32.301262630871
- **long**: -90.177907681338
- **full address**: Two Mississippi Museums, Jackson, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Evers Lecture: Ambassador Andrew Young being held?
  - **A:** Evers Lecture: Ambassador Andrew Young takes place on Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 03 Sep, 2026 at 06:00 pm at Two Mississippi Museums, Jackson, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Evers Lecture: Ambassador Andrew Young?
  - **A:** Evers Lecture: Ambassador Andrew Young is organized by Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
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