Hinds Community College students Aygul Brown of Yazoo City, left, and Taylor Stockton of Cleveland check out the “Inspiring the Next Generation: Exceptional Mississippi Women”  photo exhibit at the McLendon Library on the Raymond Campus.

Hinds Community College students Aygul Brown of Yazoo City, left, and Taylor Stockton of Cleveland check out the “Inspiring the Next Generation: Exceptional Mississippi Women” photo exhibit at the McLendon Library on the Raymond Campus.

 

The McLendon Library at Hinds Community College’s Raymond Campus is hosting a traveling exhibit entitled “Inspiring the Next Generation: Exceptional Mississippi Women” Jan. 12-Feb. 23.

The exhibit made available through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History features 10 photo panels focusing on 32 women who shaped Mississippi and the nation, divided into eight categories: artists, performers, civil rights, athletes, authors, suffrage, education, and government and law.

The women featured in this exhibit include well-known individuals such as Fannie Lou Hamer and Leontyne Price in addition to influential, but lesser-known, women such as Burnita Shelton Matthews. A DVD entitled Magnificent Mississippi Women is included with the exhibit.