We Have Overcome: A Conversation on Progress and the Path Forward

The final event of the No Tears Project Jackson residency 9/27 - 9/29, join us for a pre-recorded conversation from the Medgar and Myrlie Evers  with civil rights advocates including Nsombi Lambright, executive director of One Voice and Allytra Perryman, deputy director of the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP. The panel will be moderated by Dr. Ebony Lumumba, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages at Jackson State University. The conversation will track the progress of equality and voter access in Mississippi from the past to the present, in the context of historical events like Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer of 1964. View the panel at one of the following Facebook pages:  @oxfordamerican, @MedgarandMyrlieEversHomeNPS, or @CentralHighNPS.

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Co-presented by the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument and Oxford American, One Voice, and the Mississippi State Conference of NAACP.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation's ParkVentures program, the National Park Service, and Jazz Road, a program of South Arts. We are also grateful to Supporting Partner, Visit Jackson. Additional partners include in partnership with Mississippi Book Festival, Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Central Mississippi Blues Society, and JSU Department of Music.