Mississippi to Break Ground on State History and Civil Rights Museums

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and civil rights leader Myrlie Evers will be among the elected officials, civil rights activists, teachers and school children participating in the ground breaking for the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 in Jackson, Miss. The Museum of Mississippi History will explore the sweep of the state’s history from earliest times to the present. The adjacent Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, the nation’s first state-operated civil rights museum, will examine the struggle for equal rights and fair