Special to the Democrat

NATCHEZ — The Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida will host a civil rights panel discussion at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Natchez Museum of African American History and Culture on Main Street. The panel will be part of the program’s 11th annual Mississippi Freedom Project fieldwork trip.

Since 2008, the program has worked in collaboration with community organizations and academic institutions in Mississippi to bring students on annual research trips to the Mississippi Delta to record oral histories with veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, educators and leaders interested in teaching the movement’s legacies.

Tuesday’s panel will highlight the ways in which former participants of the research trip carry on the legacy of the movement in their research, teaching and activism. Panelists will cover a variety of topics related to the civil rights movement, including the impact of the movement on organized labor and coalition building.

The panelists include University of Florida alumni Nicole Yapp and Oliver Telusma andUniversity of Florida professor Dr. Zoharah Simmons.

Also, at 6 p.m. Wednesday at  Miss-Lou Heritage Group and Tours on St. Catherine Street, Paul Ortiz,  director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, will host a book talk and signing for his book “An African American and Latinx History of the United States.”