Join us for "A More Perfect Union: Mississippi Founders" art gallery exhibit in Colvard Student Union's art Gallery on the second floor. 

The Mississippi Humanities Council created the traveling exhibit to highlight 12 Mississippians who fought to extend full citizenship rights to all people. Since Mississippi was not part of the U.S. until 1795 or a state until 1817, our state’s narrative has not been directly connected to the story of 1776 and the country’s founding. And yet, if we conceive of the founding as an active, ongoing process in which America struggled to fulfill the ideals of the Declaration and Constitution, Mississippi is at the heart of the story. This exhibit celebrates the men and women who fought to create a society and government that fulfilled the ideals of America.