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October 2016

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Dr. Robert Luckett discusses the 50th anniversary of Jubilee in the Jackson Free Press.  He explains: "… Margaret came to Jackson in 1949 as an extremely well-educated black female intellectual and writer, artist, teacher. It was incredibly dangerous during that period of the early years of the Civil Rights Movement to be any of those things … and she...
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  On Wednesday, October 5, 2016 at 10:00 a.m., The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO will unveil the COFO freedom trail marker. The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) has been awarded a historic designation on the Mississippi Freedom Trail.  The Mississippi Freedom Trails program is a program of Visit Mississippi (Mississippi Development Authority/Division of...
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