HUD Mississippi Team Celebrates African American History Month

From left: Claude Weathers, Public Housing Program Analyst; Jerrie Magruder, Field Office Director; artist Harold Miller; Jennie Chambers-Jones, Multifamily Account Executive; and Claudean Ervin, community Planning and Development Representative Clay sculptures from artist Harold W. Miller

Hosted by the Jackson Federal Executive Association (FEA), the celebration was held on Thursday, February 21, 2019. "Black Migrations" was the theme of the event, which included videos, stamps, clay sculptures and Civil Rights Museum information.

The showing of videos focused on the relocation of people of African descent throughout the United States. The Black Migration was the movement of approximately 6 million African Americans out of the rural southern United States to the urban Northeast, Mid-West and West beginning in 1915 through mostly 1960. The videos featured first-hand stories of individuals who were a part of the migration.

Representatives from the U. S. Postal Service displayed samples of African American stamps, and Pamela Junior, Director of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (https://mcrm.mdah.ms.gov/), gave a presentation about the museum. At the invitation of the HUD team, award winner Mississippi artist and clay sculptor Harold Miller (www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4_g30arNJI) displayed some of his work.

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