JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – The Two Mississippi Museums are commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on August 6th. Events include
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- A gallery talk at 10 a.m. with former state Sen. David Jordan in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
- A “History Is Lunch” program at noon in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium with Leslie-Burl McLemore, civil rights veteran and professor emeritus of political science at Jackson State University, and historians Jeff Kolnick, history professor at Southwest Minnesota State University, and Michelle Deardorff, professor of government and department head at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The panel will explore the struggle for voting rights in Mississippi, the state’s role in the passage of the Voting…