Dr. Henry Outlaw, with the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, recently presented his research on the Emmett Till case to three ninth grade classes at Southaven Middle School.<\/p>\n
Outlaw discussed his research during the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the Chicago youth\u2019s death and in light of the ninth grade students studying the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n In addition to aiding the students, Outlaw\u2019s research also formed the basis of Delta State’s traveling exhibit on the Emmett Till case.<\/p>\n The original exhibit was sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and was developed from an oral history project Outlaw conducted.<\/p>\n With the popularity of the original project, the traveling exhibit was developed by Delta State graphic designer Laura Walker and Delta State archivist Emily Jones, with editorial assistance from Outlaw.<\/p>\n The Delta Center\u00a0 serves as the managing entity of the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. Those interested in learning more about the MDNHA, visit http:\/\/www.msdeltaheritage.com\/.<\/a> Learn more about the Delta Center at www.deltacenterforcultureandlearning.com <\/a>or call at 662-846-4311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr. Henry Outlaw, with the Delta Center for Culture and Learning, recently presented his research on the Emmett Till case to three ninth grade classes at Southaven Middle School. Outlaw…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[412,1435,928],"class_list":["post-61902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-delta-center-for-culture-and-learning","tag-emmett-till","tag-mdnha"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61926,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61902\/revisions\/61926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}