Under the Light: Chinese in Jim Crow Mississippi

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The 2020 #UndertheLight series continues with an online discussion of the discrimination against the Chinese community during Jim Crow in Mississippi featuring guest lecturer Adrienne Berard, research communications specialist at the College of William & Mary in Virginia and author of Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South.
The presentation will also include a virtual tour through the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum’s A Closed Society gallery. The program will be live-streamed on Facebook. For more information, email info@twomississippimuseums.com.