Winston County’s NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet is set for Saturday, April 28, 2018, at Lake Tiak Okhata, Pine Ridge Lodge, 7:00 p.m.
Pamela Junior is Winston County’s NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet speaker.
Motivational speaker and historian, Pamela D. C. Junior is the newly appointed director of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum located in Jackson, Mississippi. Formerly the manager of the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, she has more than seventeen years of experience as a museum professional. Under her leadership, the museum was names 50 States 50 Sports by CNN in 2014.
As the first director over the first state sponsored civil rights museum in the county, Ms. Junior realizes the importance in telling the absolute "Truth" when interpreting the history of the many persons who fought and died for change in the South.
Pamela believes that museums should be used as an educational tool for students. In her words, "If we teach children about the history of African Americans-- telling the story of the African pride, their strengths and fortitudes, their struggles, their barriers, and their survival in a new world-- you will severe a twinkle in the eyes of many that will last a lifetime."
Pamela enjoys writing, reading, and working with organizations of service. She believes that "the integrity of two people joined to bring about an offspring stays in that lineage forever-- if the head is wrong, the body, the flesh, and the soul will be wronged forever. We must work on the HEAD."
