The Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University presents “Mobilizing in Mississippi: The Courageous Lives of Margaret Walker and Medgar Evers” Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in Griffis Hall on the MSU campus. Limited seating is available for 25 people; the program may also be accessed virtually at WebEx: https://.msstate.webex,com/meet/dmb361. Donna Clevinger, professor of Philosophy and senior faculty fellow with the Honors College, will moderate.
The talk will concern two major figures from Mississippi, Walker and Evers, and their courage to stay in the state and fight when many African Americans were migrating away from it.
This scholarly event is made possible through the support of MSU’s Shackouls Honors College and through its on and off dcampus interdisciplinary partnership.
For more information, call 662-325-2522
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