Our Museum Hours Are:

Tuesday - Friday: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

 2:00 pm  - 4:00 pm

Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED

• All volunteers are required to wear a face mask.
• Volunteers will sanitize and disinfect shared services and artifacts frequently.
• Volunteers are also required to wash their hands when they enter the museum.

We also recommend our visitors wear a mask and stay 6-feet-apart while also sanitizing after entering the museum and before leaving. 

Work on the Heritage House Exhibit began on September 21st. 

Mr. Winston Byfield and six other volunteers made structural repairs to the foundation and exterior south wall. The Volunteers of this project were: Billy Graham, Allen Harrell, Rev. Bobby Jacobs, Tom Kurtchals, Eric Preston, and Jimmy Harrell. 

Repairs will resume in November. 

Stetson University

Bachelor of Arts Degree in Digital Arts (2018)

Ethan F. Greene Award Recipient 2018

“Resilience is a feminine black figure who physically confronts the notion that there is nothing wrong, and that what society holds for the oppressed is not something felt every day. Each pose shows a struggle to escape, and yet there is no resolution. The mask is hard to see through, and the ropes constrict with each movement made. Martin Luther King Jr said, “Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” Those who experience discrimination may not feel that they can be free of those restraints, and I question whether society would bother to see that.”  

– Dominique Schmidt

1. October 1, 1962: James Meredith, first black student at University of Mississippi, began his first day of school after 3,000 Federal Troops quelled riots over his admission.

2. October 10, 1966: Founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. 

3. October 14, 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. (Activist and Civil Rights Leader) awarded The Nobel Peace Prize at age 35. Making him the youngest man to do so.

4. October 16, 1940: Benjamin O. Davis Sr., became the first black general in the Unites States Army. 

5. October 19, 1944: United States Navy finally began to accept Black women into their field. 

Due to the current Pandemic, the Museum has not been able to hold our Annual Meet & Greet Membership Event.

PLEASE JOIN/RENEW YOUR MEMBERHSIP NOW FOR 2021.

Three new members of the board of directors were elected at the Zoom Board Meeting on September 9th, 2020.

Those elected were:

• Mrs. Kathy Griffith (serving on the finance committee)
• Mr. Lee Griffith (chair the gold tournament committee)
• Mr. Winston Byfield (chair the building maintenance committee)