Wed, Dec 10 2025, 12 - 1pm
222 North Street
Jackson, MS 39201
United States
At noon on Wednesday, December 10, historian Justin Randolph will present “Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside” as part of the History Is Lunch series. Randolph will explore how law enforcement shaped life in the segregated South and how expanded police power between the Civil War and the civil rights movement reinforced systems of racial control. Randolph, an assistant professor of history at Texas A&M University, is the author of Mississippi Law: Policing and Reform in America’s Jim Crow Countryside. This program will take place in the Craig H.