Digital Gallery
Smith Robertson Museum + Cultural Center Digital Collections
Explore exhibitions and featured collections, then move into the archive for deeper research across school history, neighborhood memory, civil rights, medicine, art, and Farish Street culture.
Focused Views
Exhibitions across Mississippi history
These themes guide visitors through the collection, while the featured collections below offer closer views into particular stories.
Interpretive Exhibit
Education and Public Memory
Black education through principals, teachers, students, graduating classes, school life, and the public memory of Smith Robertson.
Interpretive Exhibit
Law, Justice, and Civil Rights
Organizing, protest, legal advocacy, and public memory tied to Mississippi civil-rights history.
Interpretive Exhibit
Farish Street History
Business, performance, faith, portraiture, and neighborhood life along Farish Street.
Interpretive Exhibit
Health, Family, and Community Care
Doctors, midwives, caregiving tools, childbirth history, family care, and public health memory from across the collection.
Interpretive Exhibit
Arts, Culture, and Public Expression
Objects, studio portraiture, pageantry, and visual culture that carry Black creative expression into the gallery.
Related Collections
Featured collections
These focused groups of records remain connected to the larger themes above while offering a more concentrated view.
Featured Collection
R. Jess Brown Collection
Explore legal papers, honors, portraits, and tributes that deepen the civil-rights and legal story through one focused archive.
Featured Collection
Scott Ford Houses Collection
Explore childbirth records, domestic memory, family photographs, and midwife history tied specifically to the Scott Ford Houses.
Featured Records
Collection highlights across the exhibits
Selected records that highlight the range of stories now visible across the site.