Black Folklore from the Mississippi Delta to Yale University, 25 October | Event in Meridian | AllEvents

Black Folklore from the Mississippi Delta to Yale University

The MAX - The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience

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Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am

2155 Front Street, Meridian, MS, United States, Mississippi 39301

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Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am (CDT)

2155 Front Street, Mississippi 39301

2155 Front St, Meridian, MS 39301-5104, United States

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Black Folklore from the Mississippi Delta to Yale University
Meet Bill Ferris, one of the newest members of The MAX Hall of Fame.

The conversation will begin with four short documentaries on blues, gospel, and folk art made by Ferris in the 1970s while teaching African American Studies at Yale University.

The Early Films of William Ferris are powerful reminders of how Mississippi Black oral traditions of music, stories, and art are an enduring part of American culture.

In raw accounts, B.B. King, preachers, inmates, quiltmakers, and gospel singers describe their lives, capturing worlds 50 years ago central to our understanding of Mississippi and the human experience—then and now.

Stay afterward to meet the legend and buy copies of his photography books, which capture Mississippi like no one else.

Please let us know you are coming to help us prepare. RSVP here: https://sales.msarts.org/Performance.aspx?pid=11262&cal=https%3a%2f%2fsales.msarts.org%3a443%2fCalendar.aspx%3fet%3dp%2bc


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Black Folklore from the Mississippi Delta to Yale University, 25 October | Event in Meridian | AllEvents
Black Folklore from the Mississippi Delta to Yale University
Sat, 25 Oct, 2025 at 10:00 am