The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is once again being recognized as one of the top facilities of its kind in the nation.
For a second consecutive year, the center located in downtown Jackson has been nominated for the Best History Museum in the United States in the USA TODAY/10Best Readers’ Choice Awards. Voting will run from now until February 10 at 10:59 a.m. CT.
Last year, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, which operates as one-half of the “Two Mississippi Museums” in the same building as the Mississippi History Museum, came in at No. 4 in the publication’s rankings.
“We are honored that the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum has been nominated again in the category of Best History Museum,” Michael Morris, director of the Two Mississippi Museums, said. “This recognition comes from the collective efforts of staff and visitors to elevate this museum among top institutions in the country.”
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Museum attendees are given an in-depth look at Black history in the Magnolia before moving to interactive exhibits that chronicle the events of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement from World War II through 1975.
The museum also embraces complex stories of Mississippians like Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Fannie Lou Hamer, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Vernon Dahmer with unflinching academic rigor, engaging visitors through historic records, artifacts, impactful programming, curated exhibits, and archival photographs and footage.
The top 10 winners, as ranked by USA TODAY 10Best readers, will be announced on February 19, at 11 a.m. CT. Readers can vote here.
