Mercedes Lewis, 11, with The Mahogany Dancers of Utica performs for about 100 people who gathered Monday night to celebrate the 100th year of Utica College and its founder, William Henry Holtzclaw. Holtzclaw founded and was a teacher at the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Men and Women, or Utica Institute, in 1903. He continued at the school until his death in 1943. The college is known today as Hinds Community College Utica Campus. The Holtzclaw Exhibit at the Southern Cultural Heritage Center depicts the early years of the school through vintage photographs as well as images from Utica Campus today. The exhibit will be on display Monday through Friday at the SCHC from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Feb. 21. Below, Holtzclaw’s granddaughter, Verna Brown Rollins of Michigan, videos the traveling exhibit. Holtzclaw was also known for writing and printing at the Utica Institute, “The Black Man’s Burden” by 1915, making him one of the first blacks in Mississippi to have a published work. (Melanie Duncan ThortisThe Vicksburg Post)