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SouthTalks | Telling Richer Stories | Michael Morris

Michael Morris will discuss efforts to expand interpretation at the Two Mississippi Museums (the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum) and how the work is influencing the future interpretive experience of other museum sites administered by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). A Jackson, Mississippi, native, Michael Morris has served as the director of the Two Mississippi Museums since 2023. Prior to working at the Two Museums, he served in several roles during his eight years at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Morris earned his BA in history and MA in political science from Jackson State University, where he worked at the Margaret Walker Center and the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute on Citizenship and Democracy. Morris completed the Southeastern Museums Conference’s Leadership Institute, has written text for Mississippi Freedom Trail markers, and was the Mississippi archivist for the Our Story, Our Terms civil rights project at Duke University.