The Catfish Row Museum provides a cultural heritage experience that showcases the unique and diverse aspects of Vicksburg — from its music, history and storytelling to its vibrant food heritage, worship and the visual arts.
Read more about the broad cultural exploration of the events, places, stories and vices that helped shape historic Vicksburg’s culture.
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Unsung Heroes: On the trail of the U.S. Colored Troops in Vicksburg
In an effort to present an inclusive history of Vicksburg for the city’s 2025 bicentennial, Vicksburg Voices — an initiative by Shape Up Mississippi in partnership with the City of Vicksburg and part of a storytelling cohort designed for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Prize alumni — is helping ensure the findings of…
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Honoring the Rosenwald Legacy
They identified education as the single-most important tool in the post-Reconstruction South to advance racial equity, and set out to create the only known philanthropic effort to ensure widespread access to education for rural Black Americans.
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Story Ebersole to Share Ms. Clotee’s ‘Melt-in-Your-Mouth’ Biscuit Recipe at Catfish Row Museum
Curious cooks will have to visit Catfish Row Museum this Saturday to learn all the secrets of Ms. Clotee’s biscuits. The event begins at 1 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Keep readingCatfish Row Museum is one of six Mississippi sites to host “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America”
The Catfish Row Museum in Vicksburg is one of six Mississippi sites selected to host “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America.
Keep readingCatfish Row Museum receives grant to expand partnership with Mississippi Main Street and the Mississippi Humanities Council
We have great news! The Catfish Row Museum is grateful to receive a grant from the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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