On today’s episode, the Two Mississippi Museums’ Ayana Jones helps give context to Freedom Summer, where over 700 mainly white volunteers came to our state and teamed up with African Americans for a voter registration drive to boost Black voter registration and combat discrimination and intimidation.

TRANSCRIPT: https://www.visitjackson.com/blog/soul-sessions-ayana-jones

On today’s episode, the Two Mississippi Museums’ Ayana Jones helps give context to Freedom Summer, where over 700 mainly white volunteers came to our state and teamed up with African Americans for a voter registration drive to boost Black voter registration and combat discrimination and intimidation. TRANSCRIPT: https://www.visitjackson.com/blog/soul-sessions-ayana-jones

Ayana Jones | MDAH

Be it our people, music, food, history or culture, there’s always something good to talk about in the City With Soul, Jackson, Mississippi!

Visit Jackson is the destination organization charged with connecting, engaging and inspiring the city with a rewarding sense-of-place for visitors and an economically beneficial and an enhanced quality-of-life for residents.

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Be it our people, music, food, history or culture, there’s always something good to talk about in the City With Soul, Jackson, Mississippi! Visit Jackson is the destination organization charged with connecting, engaging and inspiring the city with a rewarding sense-of-place for visitors and an economically beneficial and an enhanced quality-of-life for residents.

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