MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL

2011-2012

BIENNIAL REPORT

LIFE

ETHICS

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All over the Map Chair’s Message On September 29, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act into law. The Washington Post called the creation of the endowments “a momentous step.” More than two hundred people filled the Rose Garden

The Council has worked for more than four decades to

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develop and support programs that help our citizens to

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learn, to think, to imagine; to honor our traditions while

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envisioning a better society; to instill a sense of ethical

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behavior and civic responsibility in our children; to learn about the larger world of which we are a part – while at the same time encouraging this work to complement,

for the bill signing ceremony. The guest list

not compete with the sciences.

included actor Gregory Peck, historian Dumas

And we have been effective! Our programs and grants

Malone, photographer Ansel Adams, writer

reach every county in the state. From family reading

Ralph Ellison, architect Walter Gropius and philanthropist Paul Mellon. The ceremony marked the highpoint of a day devoted to celebrating culture.

Food for Thought Program Digital Media Program Humanities Teacher Award Icons on the map may represent multiple presentations in each location.

programs for new adult readers and their elementary school aged children to documentary films illuminating our complex culture and history to teacher workshops, traveling exhibits and the recorded oral history of our seniors, our work encourages Mississippians to expand what they know about their state and their nation – their world – and use that collective wisdom to foster

With that legislation, Congress called for the federal

a citizenry that is inventive, competitive, secure and

government to invest in culture, just as it had science.

fulfilled.

Today, nearly half a century since that day in the Rose Garden, the work of the humanities is as important as ever. As voluble and incessant debates rage over whether America’s best future lies in investing in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math)

Please thumb through the following pages to see how the Mississippi Humanities Council invests in Mississippi to inspire inquiry, encourage dialogue, nurture collaboration and enrich lives.

or in the humanities (literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics), the Mississippi Humanities Council suggests an easy answer: America needs both.

Pamela Pridgen

The Mississippi Humanities Council invested nearly $1.6 million in humanities programs in 2011 and 2012 that reached every county in the state, including program grants, oral history projects, family literacy programs, speakers bureau events, Food for Thought programs, digital media programs and Humanities Teacher Award lectures.

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GRANTS Sponsor / Title (County) The Hill Country Project Benton County Oral History Project (Benton) Barefoot Workshops Walter Anderson Memory Project (Jackson) The Potter’s Wheel The Potter’s Wheel: Folk Tales of the ‘Bigbee Valley (Itawamba) Copiah-Lincoln Community College The Great Flood of 2011 and Its Impact on the Natchez Area (Adams) New Stage Theater New Stage Theatre Oral History Project (Hinds) Ocean Springs School District Oral Histories of Teachers and Students Who Attended the Elizabeth H. Keys High School during Segregation, 19521968 (Jackson) Jasper County TIOCH Community Association Tioch Oral History Project (Jasper) Pass Christian Historical Society Pass Christian Oral History Project (Hancock) University of Southern Mississippi Moore Community House Oral History Project (Harrison) MS Department of Archives and History Mississippi Freedom 50th Exhibit (Hinds) Mississippi Heritage Trust Traveling Photographic Exhibit of Mississippi’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2011 (Hinds) Mississippi Public Broadcasting Freedom Riders (statewide) Millsaps College Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers (Hinds) University of Mississippi Disability, Civic Responsibility and Community Friendship (Lafayette) The University of Mississippi Eighteenth Oxford Conference for the Book (Lafayette) Collage Sacred Spaces: History and Practice in Christian Sacred Dance (Hinds) Caring and Sharing School Roots, Stems and Twigs (Madison) University of Southern Mississippi Blaxploitation and Big Business: How Hollywood Wooed African American Moviegoers in the 1970s (Harrison) Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library Experience Poetry in Vicksburg (Warren) Mississippi Museum of Art Expressions of the Orient (Hinds) University of Southern Mississippi Mississippi Gulf Coast Bound: Facilitating Access to Private Collections and Engendering Community Stewardship of Resources (Harrison, Hancock, Jackson)

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Southern Women’s Institute Real Southern Women – Staging the Characters They Inspired (Lowndes) Tougaloo College Humanities Festival (Madison) Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau OxTales and Other Stories at the Double Decker Storyfest and Square Fair (Lafayette) Pass Christian Public Library New Harmonies Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series (Harrison) Mississippi Museum of Art Unburied Treasures: Faces of the Collection (Hinds) Mississippi Archaeological Association Mississippi Archaeology Month (statewide) Winterville Mounds Park and Museum Native American Days 2011 (Washington) The Winston Project, Inc. One Voice (Hinds) Yocona International Folk Festival Connecting the Children 2011 (Lafayette) Mississippi Historical Society Mississippi History Now, an Online Publication (statewide) Coahoma Community College 19th Annual Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival (Coahoma) MUW Southern Women’s Institute Tennessee Williams Tribute Scholars’ Panel (Lowndes) Amory Regional Museum Museum on Main Street: New Harmonies – Celebrating American Roots Music (Hinds) Columbus Arts Council New Harmonies (Lowndes) Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience Traveling Trunk (Hinds) Ripley Main Street Association Faulkner Heritage Festival (Tippah) Public Policy Center of Mississippi The Richard Ford House (Hinds) Mississippi University for Women Mississippi University for Women International Series, 2011-2012 (Lowndes) University of Southern Mississippi Beethoven Lecture (Forrest) University of Mississippi 19th Oxford Conference for the Book (Lafayette) Copiah-Lincoln Community College Legends, Lore and Literature: Storytelling in the South (Adams) University of Southern Mississippi Mother/Nature Conference (Forrest, Lamar) University of Southern Mississippi 10th Annual Southern Miss Powwow (Forrest, Lamar) Martin Luther King Parade Committee Martin Luther King Parade Committee Celebration (Jones) (continued on page 6)

Grant-Making: The Cornerstone of the Council’s Work The Mississippi Humanities Council uses annual appropriations from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mississippi Legislature, as well as donations from private sources, to support free, public programs statewide that enhance understanding of our unique cultural heritage, encourage thoughtful, civil conversations among our citizens and use techniques of the liberal arts to interpret our experience in this place and time. From its beginning 40 years ago, grant-making has been at the core of the Mississippi Humanities Council’s work. During the two years encompassed in this biennial report, the Mississippi Humanities Council invested nearly $1.6 million in humanities programs that reached every single county in our state. Programs for families and their young children, for senior citizens, for educators and their students, filmmakers, librarians, scholars and tourists. Programs that reexamined the Civil Rights Movement through a 21st century lens; celebrated the legends and lore of Mississippi’s long storytelling culture; revealed details of life “Behind the Big Houses” in the pre-Civil War South; plumbed the writing of our state’s greatest authors and playwrights for insights about what makes Mississippi “the most southern place on earth.”1 Our sponsored programs ranged from from traveling exhibits, public lectures, community-level conversations and book festivals to interpretive historical theater productions, celebrations of Mississippi writers and interactive demonstrations of our state’s unique cultural demography. Our grants are made in response to proposals from nonprofit organizations throughout the state and are evaluated on a competitive basis. The programs we fund are diverse, and they illustrate the breadth of interest Mississippians have for their history, their heritage and the impact of those factors on our lives today. Beginning on page 4, view the list of all programs funded with Mississippi Humanities Council grants in 2011 and 2012. 1 James C. Cobb, The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional (Oxford University Press, 1994).

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Mississippi Oral History Project: Capturing Our Story

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Lynn Meadows Discovery Center Literature Comes to Life (Harrison) Mississippi Department of Archives and History Patriots without a Home: Dutch Fliers over Jackson Film (statewide) William Carey University League of Women Voters of Mississippi Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King Valuing the Vote (Hinds) James Bible (Forrest, Lamar) Mississippi Film and Video Alliance The New Orleans Photo Alliance Me and My Kind: James Meredith’s War (A Documentary Yazoo Revisited (Warren) Film) (statewide) DeSoto County Museum DSU/Coahoma County Higher Education Center New Harmonies (DeSoto) Through Their Eyes: Sharing the Human Experience with Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs, Inc. Mississippi Vision (Coahoma) Behind the “Big House”: Preserving the Histories and Delta State University Archives and Museum Architecture of Slavery (Marshall) Exhibiting the Humanities: Developing Two In-House University of Southern Mississippi Exhibits at DSU Archives and Museum (Bolivar) The Labat Project (Harrison) University of Southern Mississippi University of Mississippi Debussy Lecture (Forrest, Lamar) A William Faulkner Remembrance: July 6, 2012 (Lafayette) University of Southern Mississippi The Negro in Mississippi Historical Society Philosophical Fridays (Forrest, Lamar) The Impact of One (Hinds) Mississippi State University Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau Dog Breeds in Classical Antiquity (Oktibbeha) Double Decker Arts Festival – Square Fair and Storyfest University of Mississippi (Lafayette) Bertrand Russell’s “The Problems of Philosophy”: The Mississippi Museum of Art Centenary Conference (Lafayette) Still Curious? (Hinds) Preserve Marshall County and Holly Springs, Inc. University of Mississippi Behind the Big House Tour: Preserving the Histories and Stained Glass from Medieval Europe to Oxford, Mississippi Architecture of Slavery (Marshall) (Lafayette) Thirty-Third Avenue High/Trojan Alumni Association Sons of Confederate Veterans Camp #265 Black History Expo (Harrison) Interactive Civil War Relic Show (Rankin) The Negro in Mississippi Historical Society Yocona International Folk Festival Preserving the Legacy: Part II (Hinds, Rankin, Madison) Yocona International Folk Festival 2012: Cultural Exchange Copiah-Lincoln Community College in North Mississippi (Lafayette) Fiction, Fact and Film: The Civil War’s Imprint on Southern University of Southern Mississippi Culture, the 24th Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration Friendship, Death and Boethian Philosophy in the High (Adams) Middle Ages (Forrest, Lamar) Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame Winterville Mounds Park and Museum Mississippi, Birthplace of America’s Music (statewide) Native American Days 2012 (Washington) University of Mississippi Museum of the Mississippi Delta 20th Oxford Conference for the Book (Lafayette) War Comes to the Mississippi Delta (LeFlore) Delta State University Archives and Museum Mississippi Public Broadcasting Preserving and Sharing a Mississippi Delta History (Bolivar) James Meredith 50th Anniversary Documentary (statewide) University of Southern Mississippi Mississippi State University Paths to Slavery, Paths to Freedom: Documenting Runaway Shakespeare: From Page to Stage (Lowndes) Slaves in Mississippi (Forrest, Lamar) University of Mississippi The New Orleans Photo Alliance 2012 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference (Lafayette) Yazoo Revisited (Warren) Brice’s Crossroads National Battlefield University of Southern Mississippi Black Soldiers in the Civil War and Women in the Civil War, 11th Annual Southern Miss Powwow (Forrest, Lamar) Two Short Films (Lee, Prentiss) Columbus Arts Council Mississippi Archaeological Association Oh, Mr. Faulkner (Lowndes) Mississippi Archaeology Month (statewide) Institute of Southern Jewish Life Delta Blues Museum Experiencing the Immigration Story: Traveling Trunk (Hinds) From the Archive (Coahoma) University of Southern Mississippi Mississippi Museum of Art Philosophical Fridays (Forrest, Lamar) Unburied Treasures: Greatest Hits (Hinds) Mississippi Department of Archives and History Coahoma Community College We Shall Not Be Moved: Stories and Heroes of the Jackson 20th Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival Woolworth Sit In (Hinds) (Coahoma)

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Since 1999, the Mississippi Oral History Project has captured the story of Mississippi through the voices of its people in hundreds of recorded interviews and printed transcripts. Initiated by the Mississippi Humanities Council in 1999 with funding from the Mississippi Legislature through an appropriation to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Mississippi Oral History Project is a statewide venture to record Mississippians talking about their life experiences – family life, work, politics, church life, their community, the daily grind and extraordinary events.

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The University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage coordinates the project, receiving funding from the Mississippi Humanities Council to archive, transcribe and preserve these interviews, while also providing motivation, training and equipment for nonprofit organizations that want to initiate a community oral history project. The collaboration has resulted in one of the largest oral history collections in the Gulf South. Approximately 4,100 taped interviews with citizens, from top political leaders to ordinary citizens sharing their experiences, constitute the collection to date. The Council also uses funds from the Mississippi Legislature to support oral history projects for nonprofit groups through small grants. Mississippi Oral History Project subjects include World War II and War on Terror (Iraq and Afghanistan) veterans; Civil Rights Movement leaders and participants; Hurricane Katrina survivors and those involved in recovery efforts; members of Mississippi’s Legislative Black Caucus; and those interviewed as part of county and city oral history projects across the state, among others.

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2011 Family Literacy Programs

2012 Family Literacy Programs

Location: Bassfield, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Frank L. Leggett Public Library Storytellers: Jodie Engel, Althea Jerome

Location: Clinton, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Clinton Christian Community Center Storyteller: John Stark

Location: Brookhaven, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Mamie Martin Elementary School Storyteller: Doris Jones Location: Horn Lake, MS (Luciérnagas Family Reading Program) Host Organization: M.R. Dye Public Library Storyteller: Hassiby Davis

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Location: Horn Lake, MS (Luciérnagas Family Reading Program) Host: M.R. Dye Public Library Storyteller: Hassiby Davis Location: Greenville, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host: Greenville Arts Council/O’Bannon Elementary School Storyteller: Garret Hedman

Location: Houston, MS (Luciérnagas Family Reading Program) Host Organization: Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church Storyteller: June Caldwell Location: Jackson, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Poindexter Park Afterschool Club Storyteller: Doris Jones

Location: Jackson, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host: United Way of Mississippi/Richard Wright Public Library Storyteller: Doris Jones

Location: Jackson, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Medgar Evers Community Center Storyteller: John Stark Location: Jackson, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Operation Shoestring Storyteller: Doris Jones

Location: Laurel, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host: Mississippi Arts Alliance/Laurel Public Library Storyteller: Penny Wallin

Location: Wiggins, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host Organization: Stone County Public Library Storytellers: Althea Jerome, Kathryn Lewis, Daisha Walker

Location: Pontotoc, MS (Luciérnagas Family Reading Program) Host: St. Christopher Catholic Church Storyteller: June Caldwell

Location: Jackson, MS (Family Reading Bonds Program) Host: Jackson Zoological Park Storyteller: Doris Jones

Location: Morton, MS (Luciérnagas Family Reading Program) Host: Central Mississippi Regional Library System/ Morton Public Library Storyteller: Lizbeth Velasquez

Family Reading Programs: Promoting Thoughtful Literacy

“At the end, everyone applauded, realizing that they had just witnessed what can happen when a story is made exciting through actions, role play and theatrical elements of voice, timing, movement, etc.” ­ – Althea Jerome, Storyteller and Discussion Leader

The Mississippi Humanities Council’s Family Literacy Project consists of two programs: Family Reading Bonds and the Luciérnagas Family Reading Program. These programs focus on humanities-based content to promote thoughtful literacy and emphasize community involvement and advocate family literacy programming as an integral part of library and other community services. Family Reading Bonds is a six-week program of reading, discussion and storytelling. A discussion leader and storyteller conduct weekly book discussion and storytelling sessions for families with low-literacy skills. The award-winning children’s books introduce fairy tales and folk tales from around the world, stories about problems children encounter and tales from history told for children. The Luciérnagas Family Reading Program is a modified version of Family Reading Bonds designed to help address the literacy needs of our state’s rapidly growing Hispanic community. After participating, families report a higher frequency of library use. Almost all parents also report reading with their children more frequently and more than half of the families report shifting from “less than once a week” to “daily” or “once a week” reading together. During 2011-2012, the Council sponsored 16 programs (11 Family Reading Bonds and five Luciérnagas). A total of 229 parents, 368 children and 201 families participated. All programs are free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required to participate, and parents must agree to attend with their children.

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Muslim Journeys: Exploring Muslim American History and Culture

2011 Speakers Bureau Awards Callaway High School, Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Wilma Mosley-Clopton Presentation: The Ride for Freedom Callaway High School, Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Wilma Mosley-Clopton Presentation: Pathfinders to a Legacy Clinton Community Nature Center, Clinton, MS Speaker: Sam Brookes Presentation: Birds in Southeastern Indian Art and Archaeology

Hamilton Elementary School, Hamilton, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840 Hatley Elementary School, Amory, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840

Coffeeville Public Library, Coffeeville, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling

Hinds Community College, Raymond, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poems Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones

Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, MS Speaker: Lillie Lovette Presentation: Merle Haggard: Philosopher of the Working Man Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Dr. Stuart Rockoff Presentation: The History of Jews in Mississippi Cottonlandia Museum, Greenwood, MS Speaker: Dr. Luther Brown Presentation: Representing Place: How Sublime Blues Captures the Poetry and Place of the Mississippi Delta East Amory Elementary School, Amory, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840 First Regional Library/ Hernando Public Library, Hernando, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poems Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Minor Buchanan Presentation: Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts and the Origin of the Teddy Bear Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Martha Foose Presentation: A Southerly Course Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Dr. Andrew Haley Presentation: The Mississippi Melting Pot Friends of the Winona-Montgomery County Library, Winona, MS Speaker: Martha Foose Presentation: A Southerly Course

The Mississippi Humanities Council received a $4,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association to host reading and discussion series titled “Let’s Talk About It: Muslim Journeys.”

Hamilton Elementary School, Hamilton, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: Prehistoric Native American Stone Tools

Coffeeville Public Library, Coffeeville, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling

Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, MS Speaker: Bill Abel Presentation: The Delta Blues Today

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Colonial Dames XVII Century, Gov. Thomas Welles Chapter, Port Gibson, MS Speaker: Clinton Bagley Presentation: Architecture along the Mississippi River

The Council is one of 125 libraries and state humanities councils across the country selected to participate in the project, which seeks to familiarize public audiences in the United States with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around the world. Discussion themes include American Stories, Connected Histories, Literary Reflections, Pathways of Faith and Points of View. The Council will explore the American Stories theme through two series, one this fall and another in the spring of 2014.

Itawamba Community College, Tupelo, MS Speaker: Dr. Chester “Bo” Morgan Presentation: Mississippi: Too Small to Be a Nation, Too Big to Be an Insane Asylum Itawamba Community College, Belden, MS Speaker: Grady Howell Presentation: We Gather Together

Books to be discussed in the local series include Prince Among Slaves: The True Story of an African Prince Sold into Slavery in the American South by Terry Alford; The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States by Edward E. Curtis IV, editor; Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim in the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation by Eboo Patel; A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America by Leila Ahmed; and The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson.

Jackson State University, Jackson, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World Jackson State University, Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Jerry Ward Presentation: Richard Wright Jackson State University, Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Wilma Mosley-Clopton Presentation: Pathfinders to a Legacy Jackson State University, Jackson, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World Mississippi’s Lower Delta Partnership, Rolling Fork, MS Speaker: Sam Brookes Presentation: Early Peoples in the Delta Mississippi’s Lower Delta Partnership, Rolling Fork, MS Speaker: Malcolm White Presentation: How Tamales Came to Mississippi Mississippi Blueberry Jubilee Storytelling Festival, Poplarville, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World Mississippi Blueberry Jubilee Storytelling Festival, Poplarville, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling (continued on page 12)

“Although Muslims did not attain a sizable presence in the United States until the 1960s, they have been part of American history since colonial times,”

While the large presence of Muslims in the United States dates to the 1960s, Muslims have been a part of the history of America since colonial times. American Muslims’ stories draw attention to the ways in which people of varying religious, cultural, ethnic and racial backgrounds interact to shape both their communities’ identities and our collective past.

– Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities, Reed College

The first discussion series will run from September 2013 to March 2014. Participation is free and open to all. The second series will begin in March 2014.

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Humanities on the Road Picture a classroom of fourth-graders, some dressed in mid-19th century costume plucking banjos, others rapping wooden spoons rhythmically, while an interpretive historian with the Natchez Trace Parkway shares Mississippi’s Appalachian heritage, particularly its musical heritage. That would be William Arinder, a member of the Council’s Speakers Bureau.

2011 Speakers Bureau Awards (continued) Northeast Mississippi Historical and Genealogical Society, Tupelo, MS Speaker: Edwina Carpenter Presentation: The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, LeFleur’s Bluff Chapter, Brandon, MS Speaker: Mary Carol Miller Presentation: Lost Mississippi Oxford Tourism, Oxford, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling Oxford/Lafayette Library, Oxford, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling Senatobia Public Library/First Regional Library, Senatobia, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poems Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones Smithville High School, Greenwood Springs, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840 Smithville School Gifted Class, Smithville, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: Prehistoric Native American Stone Tools Sons of Confederate Veterans, Amory, MS Speaker: Edwina Carpenter Presentation: The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest St. Peter’s Telling and the North Mississippi Storyteller Guild, Water Valley, MS Speaker: Kathryn Lewis Presentation: Telling Trees Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Oxford, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling

2012 Speakers Bureau Awards Aberdeen Rotary International, Aberdeen, MS Speaker: Edwina Carpenter Presentation: The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest Adams County Christian School, Inc., Natchez, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poetry Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones

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Belzoni Garden Club (4-H), Belzoni, MS Speaker: Tre Roberts Presentation: Rural Farm, Family and Food Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain, MS Speaker: Michael Ballard Presentation: The Civil War: The Vicksburg Campaign, the Battle of Franklin, TN, and Other Mississippi Battles Brice’s Crossroads National Battlefield Commission, Baldwyn, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: Music of the War Between the States, 1861-1865 Carnegie Public Library, Clarksdale, MS Speaker: Felder Rushing Presentation: Gardening Southern Style Carnegie Public Library, Clarksdale, MS Speaker: Martha Foose Presentation: Southern Women in the Kitchen Christian Home Educators Association, Clinton, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World Clinton Community Nature Center, Clinton, MS Speaker: Grady Howell Presentation: Chimneyville: The Destruction of Jackson, MS, During the Civil War Coffeeville Public Library, Coffeeville, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Robert Davis Presentation: Publishing Your Family History Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Anne Webster Presentation: People Not Property: Tracing Your African American Roots Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, Columbus, MS Speaker: Beth Koostra Presentation: Genealogy for Beginning Researchers Como Public Library, Como, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling Della Davidson Elementary, Oxford, MS Speaker: Drs. Rebecca Jernigan and Wendy Garrison Presentation: Robert Johnson at the Crossroads East Amory Elementary, Amory, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840

Amory Municipal Library, Amory, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840

Girl Scouts of Greater Mississippi, Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Wilma Mosley-Clopton Presentation: Highlighting the Legacy

B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, Indianola, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Southern Women of Character: The Life of Mahalia Jackson Cathay Williams, Female Buffalo Soldier

Hatley Elementary School, Amory, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840 (continued on page 14)

“This will be a program I will hopefully be a part of each year. The kids learned so much and it enriched the current curriculum where I never could have.” – Teri Rhodes, Mantachie Elementary School, The Early Pioneer Settlers by William Arinder

Arinder has been a member of the Speakers Bureau for six years, spending most of his time in elementary schools. One of his three approved topics is titled “Music of the War Between the States, 18611865” and is incredibly popular. Dressed in period clothing, Arinder performs the music of the mid-19th century on an Appalachian Mountain dulcimer, banjo-mier and wooden spoons. Audience participation is encouraged through musical accompaniment on wooden spoons. For three decades, our Speakers Bureau program has encouraged informed dialogue and civic engagement on issues critical to Mississippians. Some of our state’s finest historians, writers, poets, genealogists and storytellers are available to present, at no cost to the host organization, on nearly 200 humanities topics. The Mississippi Humanities Council Speakers Bureau connects nonprofits throughout the state with pre-approved speakers. Speakers are selected by the Council based on the quality of their program and their credentials as humanities scholars, and are then paid by the Council to present for nonprofit groups throughout the state. The Speakers Bureau is one of the Council’s most popular program areas, averaging more than 45 programs a year. Any organization within the state of Mississippi with nonprofit status may apply to host a Speaker’s Bureau member at their event. Applications are available for download at www.mshumanities.org and are also available in paper form by request. All members of the Speakers Bureau are listed on the website, along with their approved program titles. The host organization applying must submit all required paperwork at least four weeks prior to the date of the event. And as with all Council-funded programming, the event must be free and open to the public. Scholars may apply to become a member of the Speakers Bureau via forms available for download on the MHC website or applicants can request paper copies. All speakers and topics submitted must be humanities-related and approved before the speaker can receive an honorarium from MHC for their appearance. Whether you want to discuss contemporary blues music, learn the history of Mississippi’s prisoner of war camps or study the impact of the Mississippi River on our state and our culture, the Mississippi Humanities Council Speakers Bureau offers informative and thoughtprovoking programs for your community or school.

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Food for Thought, for Life The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Mississippi Humanities Council two grants, in 2009 and 2010, totaling $198,000 to explore issues related to the production, consumption, distribution and cultural history of food. The Council developed and sponsored numerous programs under the theme, “FOOD — For Thought, For Life: The Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Food,” which were offered throughout the state. The goal of the programs was to inspire Mississippians to talk about and conceive solutions to the many food issues facing our state, nation and world, as well as to celebrate the unique cultural aspects of our food history, foodways and food traditions.

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Itawamba Community College, Belden, MS Speaker: Dr. Brian Anderson Presentation: Duel Defection: Liberating Party Factions Jimmie Rodgers Foundation, Meridian, MS Speaker: David Morgan Presentation: Rodgers and Rogers: Distant Father, Native Son Lee County Library, Tupelo, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840 Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society, Brookhaven, MS Speaker: Dr. Stuart Rockoff Presentation: The History of Jews in Mississippi Methodist Men’s Club, Carthage, MS Speaker: David Morgan Presentation: Rodgers and Rogers: Distant Father, Native Son Miss Lou Patriotic Tribute, Natchez, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poetry Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones Mississippi Blueberry Jubilee Storytelling Festival, Poplarville, MS Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Jernigan Presentation: Mississippi Telling Mississippi Blueberry Jubilee Storytelling Festival, Poplarville, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World Mississippi Department of Archives and History/Grand Village of the Natchez Indians, Natchez, MS Speaker: Sam Brookes Presentation: Birds in Southeastern Indian Art and Archaeology Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS Speaker: David Morgan Presentation: Rodgers and Rogers: Distant Father, Native Son

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World

Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Stuart Rockoff Presentation: History of Beth Israel Synagogue Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Perkinston, Perkinston, MS Speaker: Kathryn Lewis Presentation: The Telling Trees Mississippi Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare, Jackson, MS Speaker: Brinda Willis Presentation: Why We Call It Soul Food Mississippi State University Extension Service, Indianola, MS Speaker: Tre Roberts Presentation: Rural Farm, Family and Food Northeast Mississippi Community College, Booneville, MS Speaker: Dr. Ralph Didlake Presentation: Food from a Bioethics Perspective

The Natchez Festival of Music, Natchez, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poetry Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones

Oxford High School, Oxford, MS Speaker: Richelle Putnam Presentation: Personal Experience Writing Pine Bluff Baptist Church, Hazlehurst, MS Speaker: Mark LaFrancis Presentation: In Their Boots: Poetry Inspired by Soldiers and Their Loved Ones Piney Woods School, Pineywoods, MS Speaker: Tre Roberts Presentation: Rural Farm, Family and Food

“Third only to air and water, food is an all-consuming necessity to sustain life, yet something most citizens take for granted,” said Dr. Barbara Carpenter, executive director of the Mississippi Humanities Council, when the FOOD project was launched in Mississippi. “These programs have encouraged Mississippians to take a look at food and culture, food and heritage, food and ecology and environmental concerns. They celebrated the delights of food, contemplated the reasons that ‘you are what you eat’ and encouraged thoughtful discussions on the serious issues regarding every aspect of food, from production to food choices to health issues and public responsibilities. “

Pratt Memorial Library, Fulton, MS Speaker: William Arinder Presentation: The Early Pioneer Settlers, 1790 to 1840 Pearl River Community College Honors Institute, Poplarville, MS Speaker: Dr. Brian Anderson Presentation: Understanding Osama bin Laden Prentiss County Historical and Genealogical Society, Booneville, MS Speaker: Edwina Carpenter Presentation: The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest Real Food Gulf Coast, Long Beach, MS Speaker: Felder Rushing Presentation: Gardening Southern Style Sons of Confederate Veterans, Camp 873, Amory, MS Speaker: Edwina Carpenter Presentation: The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads and General Nathan Bedford Forrest Sons of Confederate Veterans, Tupelo, MS Speaker: Dr. Jack White Presentation: Place of Peace: Shelby Foote’s Shiloh

Vicksburg Black History Month, Vicksburg, MS Speaker: Anne Webster Presentation: People Not Property: Tracing Your African American Roots Women for Progress of Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Wilma Mosley-Clopton Presentation: Highlighting the Legacy Women for Progress of Mississippi, Inc., Jackson, MS Speaker: Dr. Wilma Mosley-Clopton Presentation: Highlighting the Legacy Yocona International Folk Festival, Water Valley, MS Speaker: Diane Williams Presentation: Parallels of Southern Storytelling and Folktales from Around the World

“These programs have encouraged Mississippians to take a look at food and culture, food and heritage, food and energy and environmental concerns.” – Dr. Barbara Carpenter, Executive Director, Mississippi Humanities Council

Throughout the FOOD project, free and open to the public programs were presented across the state. Included among these were Café Humanities food-related book club discussion groups held in Jackson, Tupelo and Hattiesburg; a panel discussion incorporating health and nutrition experts (which was aired statewide on Mississippi Public Broadcasting Television); support for the University of Mississippi’s 14th Annual Southern Foodways Symposium in Oxford and the 13th Annual Crossroads Film Festival’s Award Luncheon in Jackson. Other projects included support for a Mississippi State Hospital residents’ food-focused art exhibit and a Blues, Barbeque and Baseball weekend at the Mississippi Braves/ Trustmark Stadium. Other successful ventures included the “It’s About YOU” television series celebrating the diversity of Mississippi through film and food and a “Freedom Seder” facilitated by Tougaloo College, a historic Black educational institution and the Golding/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. The Council will conclude this study in “eating, drinking and thinking” in the spring when the final FOOD: For Thought, For Life programs will be announced.

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Museum on Main Street: Bringing the Smithsonian to Rural Mississippi

The Mississippi Humanities Council partners with every institution of higher learning in the state each year to recognize outstanding teachers in the humanities. Recipients of Humanities Teacher Awards are asked to deliver public lectures in their chosen fields of study during National Arts and Humanities Month. The Council honors the accomplishments of these educators each year at our Public Humanities Awards Program and Dinner.

2011 Humanities Teacher Awards Alcorn State University Dr. Jerry Domatob Presentation: Southwest Mississippi Photos Lorman, MS Belhaven College Dr. Stephen W. Sachs Presentation: The Art of Teaching through Encouragement and Critical Thinking Jackson, MS Blue Mountain College Dr. Ronald Meeks Presentation: The Preacher as Artist: An Exploration of the Homiletical Artistry of Franklin D. Pollard Blue Mountain, MS Coahoma Community College Kelvin Towers Presentation: The Importance of Music Education Clarksdale, MS Copiah-Lincoln Community College Dr. Rhonda Smith Presentation: Play Ball: Life Lessons from the World of Sports Mendenhall, MS Delta State University Marion Duncan Baird Presentation: Re-Experiencing Home Cleveland, MS East Central Community College Christopher Brady Presentation: Amazed and Amused: Discussions of Art and Life Decatur, MS Hinds Community College Dr. Benjamin G. Cloyd Presentation: Turkey in Ancient Times Raymond, MS Holmes Community College Steven Deaton Presentation: The Balladeers: Great Stories in Five Minutes or Less Ridgeland, MS

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Itawamba Community College Dr. Raymond “Cass” Patrick Presentation: Jazz – What Is It, Where Did It Come From and How Do They Do It? Fulton, MS Jackson State University Presentation: Contemplative Soliloquy: Teaching Hamlet in the 21st Century University Classroom Dr. Everett Neasman Jones County Junior College Rochelle Dahmer Presentation: Capturing the Heart and Mind of the Reluctant Writer with Technology Ellisville, MS

Photographs courtesy of the National Archives

Since partnering with the Smithsonian Institution and Museums on Main Street, the Mississippi Humanities Council has guided five exhibits through our state: Produce for Victory, Key Ingredients, Between Fences, New Harmonies (twice) and Journey Stories. In all, those exhibits toured 36 communities and were visited by an estimated 150,000 people.

Meridian Community College Dr. Cedric Bradley Presentation: Leadership Meets Literature: Using Fiction Literature to Examine Leadership Meridian, MS Millsaps College Sandra Murchison Presentation: Tracing the History of the Delta Blues Jackson, MS

In October, we will launch our newest Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, The Way We Worked. The exhibit will appear in six communities from October through July 2014, including Meridian, Indianola, New Albany, Decatur, Wesson and Tunica.

Mississippi College Dr. Merle Ziegler Presentation: The Importance and Ethics of Communication Clinton, MS Mississippi Delta Community College Mary Ruth Brindley Presentation: Broadening Your Horizons through Travel Moorhead, MS Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Jefferson Davis Dr. Patricia West Presentation: Race Riot: Press Coverage of Urban Violence, 1900-1930 Gulfport, MS Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Gautier John McAnally Presentation: Reacting to the Past Gautier, MS Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Perkinston Ryan Schilling Presentation: Arab Spring: Revolutions in the Age of Globalization Perkinston, MS (continued on page 18)

Through a partnership with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Mississippi Humanities Council brings Smithsonian-quality exhibits and programs to rural Mississippi communities via the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street initiative. More than half of Mississippians live in rural communities that often have fewer opportunities for funding or technical assistance to develop extensive exhibitions and are often excluded from traveling exhibition programs because they cannot accommodate large structural components, complex installations and expensive shipping and participation fees. Museum on Main Street provides these institutions with access to otherwise scarce resources and assists them in making lasting improvements that advance their institutional ambitions.

Smithsonian Exhibits have been displayed at more than 30 towns across Mississippi, have been experienced by some 150,000 individuals and are having an ongoing cultural and economic impact on each of these communities and the surrounding areas.

The Way We Worked is a portable five-kiosk interactive exhibit portraying work in America over the past 150 years, documenting the lives of ordinary Americans: miners, teachers, doctors, agricultural workers, construction workers, industrial workers, military personnel, law enforcement officers, professional athletes, computer techs and many others, showing that all are integral to the functioning of our economy and the defining of our culture. The grand opening celebration for The Way We Worked in Mississippi will take place Saturday, October 5, 2013, at the Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum in Meridian. This event, and all others related to the exhibit, are all free and open to the public.

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2011 Humanities Teacher Awards (continued) Mississippi State University Dr. Richard Damms Presentation: The Anglo-American “Special Relationship” in the 1950s Starkville, MS Mississippi University for Women Dr. Erin Kempker Presentation: One-Worldism and “Big Sister” Government: The Conspiracy behind International Women’s Year Columbus, MS Mississippi Valley State University Dr. Alphonso Sanders Presentation: Melodizing Harmony Itta Bena, MS Northeast Mississippi Community College Craig-Ellis Sasser Presentation: What are the Humanities and Why Should I Care? Booneville, MS Pearl River Community College Dr. Ryan Ruckel Presentation: Mississippi’s “Secret Garden”: Italians, the Delta and the American Dream Poplarville, MS Rust College Dr. Sylvester Oliver Presentation: Ida B. Wells Digital Research Program Holly Springs, MS Southwest Mississippi Community College Andrew Dale Presentation: The Influences of Cultures on the Music of Puerto Rico Summit, MS Tougaloo College Melody Fisher Presentation: Religious Leaders’ Sex Scandals: An Analysis of Image Repair Strategies Tougaloo, MS University of Mississippi Beth Ann Fennelly Presentation: A Life With Lines: Reflections on Writing, Reading and Loving Poetry Oxford, MS University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Andrew Haley Presentation: Mississippi’s Melting Pot: Community Cookbooks and National Identity in the 20th Century South Hattiesburg, MS

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William Carey University Dr. Lorie Fulton Presentation: Writing in the “Crooked Letter” State: A History of Mississippi Literature Hattiesburg, MS

Picturing America was developed by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a resource for educators to help a new generation connect to American history through art.

2012 Humanities Teacher Awards Alcorn State University Dr. Dorothy Idleburg Presentation: Diversity at the Forefront: Overcoming Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo and Macro Level Lorman, MS Belhaven College Rose Mary Foncree Presentation: The Ubi Sunt Motif in Anglo-Saxon Poetry Jackson, MS Blue Mountain College Dr. Jane Galliher Presentation: Masculinity and Emotional Isolation in Alice Cary’s “My Grandfather” Blue Mountain, MS

Copiah-Lincoln Community College Mary Warren Presentation: The Importance of Talking the Talk Wesson, MS Delta State University Dr. Charles Westmoreland Presentation: The Backbone of History: Why Archives Matter to All of Us Cleveland, MS

In Mississippi, the Council pairs photographs from the collections of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History with the American masterpieces in a program entitled “Picturing America, Reflecting Mississippi,” giving further relevance for Mississippi audiences. Lesson plans and other background materials are also provided for the national collection, and topics of discussion are provided for the MDAH images.

East Central Community College H. Kevin Ryals Presentation: A Legacy of Teaching: Through the Generations Decatur, MS Hinds Community College Terry Fletcher Presentation: William Grant Still: From Italy to Highway 1, USA Raymond, MS Holmes Community College Sissy Pierce Presentation: Plymouth Plantation: A Living History Grenada, MS

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In 2010, the Mississippi Humanities Council began offering a free program to schools, libraries and museums that uses the America’s best-known works of art — including paintings, sculpture, architecture, fine crafts and photography—to illuminate our nation’s character, ideals and aspirations. Through this innovative program, students and citizens gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of its art. The program consists of highquality reproductions of notable American art provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities that is presented, studied and discussed with humanities scholars to consider our nation’s history and culture in a fresh and engaging way. The program uses art as a catalyst for the study of America—the cultural, political and historical threads woven into our nation’s fabric over time.

Coahoma Community College Roslind Wilcox Presentation: Exploring Methodology and Symbolism in the Visual Arts Clarksdale, MS

Itawamba Community College Dr. Ashley Lancaster Presentation: The Eugenic Creation of the Southern Poor White Woman in Depression-Era Literature Fulton, MS

Picturing America, Reflecting Mississippi

Photographs: Top, Negro laborer’s family being moved from Arkansas to Mississippi by white tenant, 1938, Dorothea Lange, courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Bottom, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), The Migration of the Negro Panel no. 57, 1940-1941, courtesy of The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

The exhibit has been made available to public institutions and to date has been shown in Clarksdale, Tupelo, Cleveland and is currently on display at the public library in Columbus, and will continue to be offered as long as there is an interest.

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MHC Embraces Digital Humanities: Leveraging the Power of Technology

2011 Humanities Teacher Awards (continued) Jackson State University Jimmy Mumford Presentation: Perspectives of Empowerment: How Graphic Design Affects Black America Jackson, MS

Mississippi University for Women Dr. Beverly Joyce Presentation: Intersections of Gender and Place: Is There a Southern Voice in Feminist Art? Columbus, MS

Jones County Junior College Dr. David Lowery Presentation: The Enduring Legacy of a “Dusty Old Icon” Ellisville, MS

Mississippi Valley State University Dr. Paul Scheiber Presentation: Approaching Music Theory as a Music Educator versus a Theorist Itta Bena, MS

Meridian Community College William Brantley Presentation: The Guitar Code: Deciphering the Earliest Printed Music for Guitar and Vihuela Meridian, MS Millsaps College Dr. Eric Griffin Presentation: Ye strangers that doe inhabite in this lande: Shakespeare and Immigration Jackson, MS Mississippi College Dr. Beth Stapleton Presentation: How Linguistics Can Take You around the World: Interviews in Cuba, May 2012 Clinton, MS

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Northeast Mississippi Community College Kathy Green Presentation: Literature: Getting to the Good Stuff Booneville, MS Pearl River Community College Dr. Pamela Jones Presentation: Dyslexia and the Music Student Poplarville, MS Rust College Dr. A.J. Stovall Presentation: African Americans and the Emancipation Proclamation Holly Springs, MS

Mississippi Delta Community College Zane Hodge Presentation: The Confluence of Avocation and Vocation Moorhead, MS

Southwest Mississippi Community College Joyce Mabry Presentation: Poets with Passion: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost Summit, MS

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Jefferson Davis Dr. Trevor Smith Presentation: The United Fruit Company, Bananas and American Imperialism Gulfport, MS

Tougaloo College Dr. W. Miranda Freeman Presentation: Their Past in My Blood: Paule Marshall, Gayle Jones and Octavius Butler’s Response to the Black Aesthetic Tougaloo, MS

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Gautier Dr. Alessandra Ferris Presentation: Piano Lecture Recital: La Pasion of LatinAmerican Women Composers Chiquinha Gonzaga and Teresa Carreno Gautier, MS

University of Mississippi Jeffrey Jackson Presentation: Mississippi and the Global South: The Contemporary Paradox of Poverty amid Plenty Oxford, MS

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College-Perkinston Daniel Calcote Presentation: From the Creek to the Classroom Perkinston, MS

University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Marie Danforth Presentation: La Fin du Voyage: Bioarchaeology, History and the French Colonial Experience Hattiesburg, MS

Mississippi State University Dr. Shalyn Claggett Presentation: The Animal in the Machine: Projecting and Policing Pleasure in Victorian Magic Lantern Shows Starkville, MS

William Carey University Dr. J. Mark Nicovich Presentation: “O Christ grant us to see Persia burning…”: The Persian Sack of Jerusalem (614 AD) and the End of Antiquity Hattiesburg, MS

The Mississippi Humanities Council has joined the social-networking revolution in attempts to both modernize the Council and reach a new demographic. MHC uses resources like Twitter and Facebook to publicize Councilfunded programs across the state, Council-conducted projects and other humanities-related events across the country. To stay connected to the MHC on all things humanities, please “like” us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter: @MS_Humanities The Mississippi Humanities Council website is also new and vastly improved. The new site enables those wishing to submit a proposal for one of our six annual grant rounds the convenience of downloading all documents required in both Word and Adobe PDF formats. Also, the website has brought increased traffic to the MHC Speakers Bureau program. Potential hosts of a Speakers Bureau event can visit the site, find a speaker appropriate to their desired program or area of interest and download the forms necessary for application. We have seen a noted increase in our Speakers Bureau activity that is directly related to the improved functionality of the website. The calendar feature is updated regularly with both Council-conducted and Council-funded programs and has become an invaluable resource to both Council members and the general public. Visitors to the MHC website will also find current humanities news, reflecting both state and national interests, and a video feature has been added where films pertaining to the work of the Council and to national humanities topics can be viewed.

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2011 Funding Sources

Dr. Audrey H. Sidney

Dr. Ted Ammon

Dr. Joseph L. Fant

Mr. Charles V. McTeer

Dr. Kathy H. Baxter

Dr. E. Harold Fisher

Dr. Mabel P. Middleton

Ms. Constance SlaughterHarvey

Dr. David L. Beckley

Dr. Velvelyn Foster

Dr. George T. Mitchell

Dr. Gemma D. Beckley

Ms. Melody Golding

Dr. Alpha L. Morris

Mr. Gerald Blessey

Dr. John D. W. Guice

Mr. Luther T. Munford

Mrs. Imogene Borganelli

Mr. Robert E. Hauberg Jr.

Dr. Gary L. Myers

Dr. Lucie R. Bridgforth

Dr. Barbara Holland

Mr. Walley R. Naylor

Dr. Ann L. Canty

Mr. Troy Holliday

Dr. Ralph Noonkester

Hon. Neely Carlton

Mr. George Howell

Dr. Cora G. Norman

Mrs. Frances N. Coleman

Dr. Roy C. Hudson

Dr. Linwood Orange

Dr. Jo Ann Collins-Smith

Dr. Preston Hughes

Dr. John A. Peoples Jr.

Mr. Wilbur Colom

Ms. Jannie B. Johnson

Mrs. Cindy S. Phillips

Dr. Catherine Perry Cotten

Mr. John Johnson

Mrs. Evelyn D. Polk

Mrs. Rosia Wade Crisler

Dr. Leslie Johnson

Hon. Lenore L. Prather

Dr. David L. Crosby

Mr. W. J. Johnson Jr.

Mrs. Lynn P. Crystal

Mrs. Harriet Kuykendall

Mr. Ellis W. Darby

Dr. Billie Louise Lee

Dr. Barbara C. Dease

Dr. Joe A. Lee

Mrs. Mimi Dossett

Dr. T. W. Lewis III

Dr. Juanita Sims Doty

Dr. Nelda Lott

Mr. Charles Dunagin

Dr. Willis H. Lott

Mr. David C. Dunbar

Dr. Charles Lowery

Ms. Nancy S. Ellis

Dr. Aubrey K. Lucas

Mrs. Celia Emmerich

Mrs. Jeanne B. Luckett Ms. Dorothy McEwen

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Dr. Peggy Whitman Prenshaw Dr. Vivian M. Presley Ms. Anna L. Quinn Dr. Clyda Stokes Rent Dr. Rod Risley Dr. Dollye M. E. Robinson Mr. R. Jack Rogers Dr. W. Charles Sallis Dr. David G. Sansing Dr. William Scaggs

Mrs. Carolyn Vance Smith Dr. James Patterson Smith Dr. Carolyn Ellis Staton Mr. Will Sullivan III Mr. Rowan H. Taylor Dr. Billy B. Thames Mr. Roy Thigpen Dr. John Thornell Mrs. Allie Fae Turner Mr. Robert M. Walker Dr. Jerry Washington Ward Jr. Dr. Ila Wells Mrs. Ann H. White Dr. Jack White Dr. Samuel L. White Sr. Mrs. Gayle Wicker Ms. Margaret Ann Wilburn

Expenditures for Fiscal Year 2011

Program Services 87% Administrative and General 12% Fundraising 1% _______________________________________________________________________

2012 Funding Sources

National Endowment for the Humanities $651,560.00 Mississippi Arts Commission $1,886.00 Mississippi Legislature: Oral History Project $50,000.00 Private Donations $35,391.00 Interest and Miscellaneous Income 20,672.00 In-Kind Contributions $146,887.00 Total $906,396.00 _______________________________________________________________________

Expenditures for Fiscal Year 2012

Program Services 83% Administrative and General 16% Fundraising 1% _______________________________________________________________________ Based on audited financial statements for fiscal years ending 10/31/2011 and 10/31/2012. _______________________________________________________________________ 9–

THOUSANDS

Dr. Leslie Burl McLemore

8–

HUNDRED

Mrs. Carla C. Falkner

3–

THOUSANDS

Dr. Ted J. Alexander

8–

HUNDRED

MHC Advisory Members

National Endowment for the Humanities $700,424.00 Mississippi Arts Commission $2,925.00 Mississippi Legislature: Oral History Project $50,000.00 Private Donations $8,120.00 Interest and Miscellaneous Income $18,696.00 In-Kind Contributions $296,622.00 Total $1,076,787.00 _______________________________________________________________________

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7–

2012 FUNDING SOURCES $651,560

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National = $651,560

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State = $50,000

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In-Kind = $146,887



Other = $57,949

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Total = $906,396

$146,887 $57,949

$50,000

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Dr. Robert E. Wolverton Dr. Kent Wyatt Mr. Chuck Yarborough Mrs. Aurelia Norris Young

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2012

$697,733

EXPENDITURES

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$133,781



Program = $697,733



Admin = $133,781



Fundraising = $7,490



Total = $839,004

$7,490

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Mississippi Humanities Council Executive Director

Dr. Luther P. Brown (Vice Chair) Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning Cleveland, MS Dr. Jean Chamberlain Jackson State University Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages Jackson, MS Dr. Ralph Didlake University of Mississippi Medical Center Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities Jackson, MS Dr. Thomas Easterling Mississippi School for Math and Science West Point, MS Jack Garner The Ramey Agency Jackson, MS Dr. Jeanne Gillespie University of Southern Mississippi Hattiesburg, MS Dr. Marie Davis Heim Retired, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College McHenry, MS *Betty Lou Jones Jimmie Rodgers Foundation, Mississippi Parole Board Meridian, MS Dr. Hilliard L. Lackey III Jackson State University Jackson, MS

Kathryn Lewis Retired, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Perkinston, MS Dr. William Lewis Pearl River Community College Poplarville, MS Dr. D. E. Magee Magee Eye Clinic Jackson, MS Panny Flautt Mayfield Coahoma Community College Clarksdale, MS Dr. Andrew P. Mullins Jr. Retired, University of Mississippi University, MS Pamela Pridgen (Chair) The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forest County Hattiesburg, MS

Dr. Barbara Carpenter Jackson, MS

Assistant Director for Programs Carol Andersen Jackson, MS

Fiscal Administrator Brenda T. Gray Clinton, MS

Special Projects Director David Morgan Jackson, MS

Executive Assistant

Elena C. Fougerousse Ridgeland, MS Volunteer

Lillie Lovette

Edwards, MS

Peyton D. Prospere Watkins and Eager PLLC Jackson, MS Sharman Bridges Smith Retired, Mississippi Library Commission Brandon, MS Alex T. Thomas (Secretary) Blue South Entertainment Florence, MS *Shannon Warnock Ridgeland, MS *Governor’s Appointee

Mississippi Humanities Council 3825 Ridgewood Road, Room 317 Jackson, MS 39211 T / 601-432-6752 F / 601-432-6750

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The Mississippi Humanities Council is supported by Congress through the National Endowment for the Humanities and by the generosity of individual donors. The Council does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability or age. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.

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