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Wharton Presentation
David
Wharton, the Center’s Director of
Documentary Projects, will present a slide show
entitled “In the 21st Century: Oxford’s
Second Baptist Church” on Sunday, February
22, at 3:00 p.m. The program will be held at
the church, located at 611 Jackson Avenue in
Oxford. It is free and open to the public.
Funded by a mini-grant from the Mississippi
Humanities Council, Wharton has been photographing
activities
at the church for the past two years. Founded
by freed slaves in 1869, Second Baptist is
Oxford’s
oldest predominantly African American church
and has long been one the community’s most
vital institutions. Wharton’s photographs
are intended as a composite portrait of Second
Baptist as it enters the 21st century. “They’re
a kind of history of the church’s present,” he
says. “Fifty or a hundred years from now,
people will be able to look at these pictures
and get a pretty good idea of what was going
on in the church at the beginning of the 21st
century.” Wharton will donate to the church
archives a portfolio of about 60 black-and-white
prints, as well as several hundred images in
digital form.
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