History Is Lunch: "Mississippi's Legacy of School Desegregation"

At noon Wednesday, October 1, Ellen Ann Fentress, author of "The Steps We Take: A Memoir of Southern Reckoning" and founder of Admissions and The Academy Stories websites, and Rita Watts Boone, a writer for Admissions, will discuss a powerful online collection of interviews, articles, and oral histories that document the experiences of individuals through the early years of public school integration, known as Admissions and Academy Stories, as part of the History Is Lunch series. These stories share personal experiences of those who attended private segregation academies as well as those who remained within the public school system during integration.

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 the book will be available for sale with a book signing to follow. For more information, call 601-576-6850 or email aW5mbyB8IG1kYWggISBtcyAhIGdvdg==.

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