Special Events

All K-12 teachers and college instructors are invited to enroll in our 2021 virtual Continuing Education Unit (CEU) workshop focusing on the Digital Welty Lab initiative at Millsaps College on Friday, February 26, from 8:30 a.m.–2 p.m. Directed by Dr. Michael Pickard, assistant professor of English and creative writing at Millsaps, the Digital Welty Lab initiative recruits students in a collaborative effort to understand Welty’s literature in a digital experience. Led by Dr. Pickard and Dr. Suzanne Marrs, Welty Foundation scholar-in-residence and emerita professor of English at Millsaps, this workshop will analyze how to influence the Internet to draw born-digital readers to Welty using creative digital projects alongside three Welty stories: “Powerhouse,” “Moon Lake,” and “A Still Moment.” Registration fee is $40 per person and space is limited to 50 participants. For more information, email info@eudoraweltyhouse.com or call 601-353-7762.

Join us on Saturday, March 6, at 11 a.m. for the virtual event, I AM A MAN: Thoughts of Yesterday, as we reflect on the stories of the Mississippi Freedom Movement with civil rights veterans Frank Figgers and Hezekiah Watkins. Figgers and Watkins will share their personal experiences of the movement through selected images from the special exhibit, I AM A MAN: Civil Rights Photographs in the American South, 1960–1970. Registration is free for this event and space is limited.  

Frank Figgers is the vice chairman of the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Board of Directors and is a member of the Jackson Public Schools Board and the Young People Project (YYP) of Jackson. He currently serves as a strategy consultant for One Voice, Inc., a non-profit leadership development organization in Jackson. Hezekiah Watkins is a former Freedom Rider and currently serves as a docent at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.