Where to Find Information

Opened in 2011 by Jackson State University, the Center seeks to preserve the past and foster the development of future leaders and community builders.

Resources on the Southern Freedom Movement compiled by those who lived it. Includes a bibliography, timelines, photos, primary source documents, and lists of speakers.

Honors the academic and artistic legacy of writer Margaret Walker through archival collections, exhibits, and public programs.

A comprehensive historical agency, the department collects, preserves, and provides access to the archival resources of the State of Mississippi.

An electronic publication offering a wide variety of essays on the history of Mississippi, covering the periods from prehistory through the 20th century.

For the past several years, a team of student researchers has traveled with the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program to the Mississippi Delta to gather oral histories with civil and labor rights leaders.

Includes digitized photographs, letters, diaries, oral history transcripts, and other documents, as well as finding aids for manuscript collections.

Each summer since 1998, the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute has sponsored an institute, seminar, or workshop for educators and students interested in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. These programs — lectures, oral history panels, and field trips — engage participants in discussions with scholars and activists, and demonstrate ways of integrating primary sources about the Civil Rights Movement into lesson plans and curricula.

The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Veterans convenes an annual conference for veterans. This is an excellent opportunity for students to meet veterans, learn about history, and learn strategies for organizing today.

The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation works in communities and classrooms, in Mississippi and beyond, to support a movement of racial equity and wholeness as a pathway to ending and transcending all division and discrimination based on difference.