Coming soon: A new issue of Amplify by LFVC
This month’s theme is resilience—featuring powerful stories from people who’ve lived it, told with heart and honesty.
You’ll hear from two people who know what it means to keep going:
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A psychologist who’s helping Mississippians heal while navigating her own grief
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A bluesman who carries generations of struggle and sound in his voice
Both stories are written by Jim Beaugez and told with the care they deserve.
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Amplify by LFVC: Issue 2
From the Archive
Mississippi Quilting
“Mississippians have created a remarkable record of history and art in their quilts,” said Mary Lohrenz, who curated “Stories Unfolded,” a temporary exhibition of quilts from the state archives’ collection. The collection is part of the Dec. 9 opening of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
Quilts, from utilitarian bedcovers crafted from scraps to high-style showpieces of imported fabrics to narrative quilts that share a story, all have a place in the state’s history and “Stories Unfolded.”
From the Archive
Tutwiler Quilters
Bobbie, Bessie, Susie, Ethel, Zelda.
Lovie, Alberta, Ollie, Ora, Pandora
Daisy, Lady, Florence, Willie, Bertha.
Arnesta, Edna, Pearlie, De Ella, Magnolia
These are the names of some of the Tutwiler Quilters who have come and gone — their names and pictures, pinned to a board inside the Tutwiler Community Education Center.
Amplify by LFVC: Issue 1
From the Archive
Mississippi native marches on to spread message of equality across the world
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It was a hot August day 50 years ago in Washington, D.C. The sea of people was so thick that the whites, blacks, Asians and Indians holding hands could hardly move. Ambulance sirens sounded, yet the atmosphere was peaceful—and freedom was in the air.
“It was a celebration,” said 76-year-old Marie Davenport, one of the estimated 300,000 people who gathered for the 1963 March on Washington to heed Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic call for civil and economic rights for black Americans.
“We didn’t know what kind of history it would be, but we knew it was something that would never, ever be forgotten. So, we all came—black, white, all people. We held hands together. We sang together. We prayed together. And, we marched together. And, I think, on that day, people felt united. It was a cause this country needed, because it showed people could come together.”
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