Mississippi Historical Society
Friday, March 5, 2021
Annual Meeting
All sessions are online
Friday, March 5
9:00 a.m. Board Meeting
9:30 a.m. Business Meeting
10:30 a.m. Welcome: Marshall Bennett, president, Mississippi Historical Society
10:45 a.m. Session 1 – Mississippi as Architectural Trendsetter
- Robert Edgar Bost: Natchez’s Most Prolific Twentieth-Century Architect and Builder - Chase Klugh, Historic Natchez Foundation
- Mississippi Midwestern State Capitol - Jennifer V. O. Baughn, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
- Monument and Memory: The Illinois Memorial at the Vicksburg National Military Park - Bill Gatlin, Independent Scholar
- ‘His finest and purest thinking’: The Mississippi Retreats of Louis Sullivan - Jeff Rosenberg, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources
12:15 p.m. Plenary Session with Book of the Year Author
Presiding: Marshall Bennett
Introduction: Chuck Westmoreland, Delta State University
Winning Author: Nancy Bristow, Steeped in the Blood of Racism: Black Power, Law and Order, and the 1970 Shootings at Jackson State College
1:30 p.m. Session 2 – Student Activism in the Civil Rights Movement
- The Civil Rights Movement in Jackson Mississippi: Newspapers Frames of Black Protest from 1961-1963 - Randrika Henderson, University of Southern Mississippi
- Planting an Alternative Newspaper: The Kudzu and Community Building in Mississippi, 1964-1972 - Wayne Dowdy, Independent Scholar
- Young, Black and Powerful: Student Protests at Ole Miss during the Age of Black Power - Jasmine Stansberry, University of Mississippi
2:45 p.m. Session 3 – Resistance and Memory: Free and Enslaved Laborers in Mississippi
- ‘Almost in a state of insurrection’: The Slave Rebellion on Mrs. Polk’s Plantation - Lisa C. Childs, University of Arkansas
- The Global Impact of Mississippi Delta Cotton: The Cotton Pickers’ Monument Project - C. Sade Turnipseed, Jackson State University
3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks: Marshall Bennett
Introduction of new president Stephanie Rolph
Adjournment