Catfish Row Museum Team
The Catfish Row Museum will be a cultural centerpiece with exhibits that will explore the events, places, stories and vices that helped shape Vicksburg’s culture. This cultural heritage experience is a project of Shape Up Mississippi.
National Advisory Committee
• W. Ralph Eubanks– Editor, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Charlottesville, VA
• William R. Ferris– Joel Williamson Eminent Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• Robert Luckett– Assistant Professor, Department of History, Jackson State University/Director, Margaret Walker Center, Jackson, MS
• Marcie Ferris– Associate Professor, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
• David Slay– Park Ranger, Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS
Partners
• Alcorn State University
• Mary Beth Lasseter of Southern Foodways Alliance
• Jacqueline House Museum of African American History
• Vicksburg Farmers’ Market
• Vicksburg African American History
• Linda and James Fondren
• Vicksburg Medical Foundation
Team
• Cissy Anklam– Museum Concepts, Project Lead
• Terence Healy– HealyKohler Design, Exhibit Designer
• Lauchlin Fields– Front Porch Fodder, Writer/Researcher
