Turn-of-the-Century Mississippi Social Studies Teachers Workshop

Mississippi teachers are invited to attend a full day of presentations and workshops on “Turn-of-the-Century Mississippi” on November 7, 2014 sponsored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). The conference announcement explains that,

The coming of the twentieth century saw great changes throughout the state—social, economic, and industrial. Mississippi’s constitution was rewritten and adopted in 1890 to codify the privileges of white men and institutionalize the impediments to women and African American citizens. The United States and Mississippi were drawn into a world war. Natural disaster ravaged the fertile Delta counties. And a new, native art form was born in the blues.

People get around in boats at the railroad station in Cary, Mississippi, on May 1, 1927, ten days after the flood. Courtesy MDAH. — Cary, Mississippi, May 1, 1927, ten days after the flood. Courtesy MDAH.

The sessions include:

Political analyst Jere Nash, “The 1890 Constitution and the Rise of Jim Crow Mississippi”
Mississippi Armed Forces Museum director Chad Daniels, “Mississippi in WWI”
University of Southern Mississippi associate professor Pamela Tyler, “Woman Suffrage in Mississippi”
MDAH outreach programs coordinator Claire Gwaltney, “1927 Mississippi Flood Lesson”
Mississippi Arts Commission arts education director Charlotte Smelser, “Blues in Mississippi Curriculum”
State Capitol curator Brenda Davis, “Mississippi’s State Capitol”
MDAH reference librarian De’Niecechsi Layton, “Genealogy in the Classroom”
University of Southern Mississippi associate professor Deanne Nuwer, “Watering Places along the Mississippi Gulf Coast: The Roaring 1920s”

The event will be held at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson.

The workshop is sponsored by Mississippi Department of Archives and History in conjunction with the Mississippi College School of Continuing Education, Mississippi Department of Education, and Mississippi Historical Society.