Ida B. Wells Birthday Celebration

July 11 13, 2008

Theme: Preserving, Protecting, Promoting Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum

220 Randolph Street

Holly Springs, MS 38635

662-252-3232

Friday, July 11 Arrive Holly Springs, MS

Le Brooks Inn

Highway 78 & Highway 7

662-252-5444 (reservations under birthday celebration) $65 per night (single/double)

Noon Tour of museum begins (minimum 5 people per tour)

Catfish lunch, Donation $5

1:00 2:00 pm Music, poetry, dance, storytelling, and face painting

3:00 pm Art at its best Guest artist

4:00 5:00 pm Meet and greet the family of Ida B. Wells (at museum)

5:00 pm Gospel Hour Praise Teams

6:00 pm Barbeque Donation $6.50

Saturday, July 12

6:30 7:30 am Breakfast on your own

Heritage Tour Price per person: $55 adult, $50 student

Price includes: transportation, guide services, admissions, lunch

Tour itinerary

7:30 am Meet at museum for Memphis tour

8:00 am Depart Holly Springs

9:00 am First Baptist Beale Street Church

Location of Memphis Free Speech

9:30 am Zion Cemetery

Gravesite of Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, Will Stewart

9:45 am Depart Memphis for Henning, TN ?oots Tour

Drive by: Woodstock Community

Woodstock Training School (Ida B. Wells taught here)

11:00 am Arrive Henning, TN

Tour of Alex Haley House Museum

Gravesite: Alex Haley

12:30 pm Lunch Stop

3:00 pm Return to Holly Springs

7:00 pm Ida B. Wells Commemorative Banquet

Donation $20

Speakers:

McMillian, President Emeritus, Rust College

Michelle Diane Wright, Author and Illustrator: Broken Utterances:

A Selected Anthology of 19th Century Black Women's Thought

Sunday, July 13

8:00 am Breakfast at Local Church

11:00 am Return to Hotel

Depart