Margaret Walker: Food, Fellowship, and Forms of Activism
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesRobert Luckett, civil rights historian and director of a special collections archive with the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University
Learning from Local Foods
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesMary Beth Lasseter, interim co-director of Southern Foodways Alliance, on storytelling and food and the creation of the Vicksburg Farmers' Market
Picturing Women Inventors Exhibition
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesView the Smithsonian poster exhibition highlighting the history of women inventors in the United States for free through April 16 at the Catfish Row Museum in Vicksburg.
Southern Jewish Food Cultures
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesA Conversation with Marcie Cohen Ferris, Professor Emeritus and Foodways author from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lesley Silver, owner of the Attic Gallery
Mississippi’s Black Farming Legacy
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesW. Ralph Eubanks, writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture of the American South and Mississippi
Home Town Recipes: Race, Myth, and Cookbooks in 20th Century Vicksburg
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesDr. Andrew Haley, Moorman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities 2019-21 and Associate Professor of American Cultural History from the University of Southern Mississippi visits the Catfish Row Museum April 23, 2022.
Documenting Delta Wok
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesA collaborative documentary project on Mississippi Delta Chinese with Talbot Easton Selby, associate dean in the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University and professor of photography; Emily Jones, Delta State University archivist; and Gabriella Sang.
Why We Call It Soul Food
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesThe story of why southerners, especially African American southerners, call the foods we eat “soul food.”
Food for Thought: Resetting the Table — Exploring Foodways in Vicksburg
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesJoin us for a sneak peek of a new exhibit coming to the Catfish Row Museum — Resetting the Table: Exploring Foodways in Vicksburg.
Fashion Politics with designer Raymond Banks
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesLearn from Vicksburg-native and designer Raymond Banks on how renowned fashion designer Patrick Kelly grew up in the civil rights movement and how he appropriated stereotypes to expose and confront America's past.
RESCHEDULED: Lunch & Learn with Donald “Field” Brown (new date coming soon!)
Catfish Row Museum 913 Washington St., Vicksburg, United StatesVicksburg native and Harvard scholar Donald "Field" Brown will provide the history of "The Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal" during critical civil rights years.