Contact: Robbie Ward
STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State's Richard Holmes Cultural Diversity Center will sponsor the Sankofa African-American Museum on Wheels next week at the Colvard Student Union.
In association with Black History Month events coordinated by the university center, the Wednesday and Thursday [Feb. 20 and 21] exhibit will be featured 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the ballroom. Admission is free to all.
The exhibit's name, Sankofa, is a term used to describe the wisdom of the past to build on the future, said E. Maria White, the Holmes Center's interim director.
Angela Jennings, curator and founder of the African-American Museum on Wheels, will be on hand to present stories and dramatizations about selected periods and historical figures. Spanning the 1860s to the present, Sankofa takes audiences on a "journey through slavery, the era of King Cotton and the uplifting days of emancipation of slaves," White said.
Also highlighted are other significant people and stories in African-American history, including early civil and women's rights advocate Ida B. Wells, the Negro Baseball League and Tuskegee Airmen, and 20th century leader Martin Luther King Jr.
An array of inventions by African-American also will be featured.
For more information, contact White at 662-325-2033 or emw1@saffairs.msstate.edu
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