Students Continue Legacy of Activism The COFO Civil Rights Education Center is proud to open its doors to student groups that engage in civil rights education, outreach, voting rights, and similar efforts, evoking the original organizing spirit that the Council of Federated Organizations embodied. In some cases, these groups focus on community building, like the...Read More

  “Chain Breakers” Mural Local artist Sabrina Howard’s mural, “Chain Breakers,” is a prominent, eye-catching feature on the side of the COFO building. Now surrounded by the COFO Pocket Park, the work features figures who played important roles in the civil rights movement and surrounding community. From left to right, the mural depicts: Alyce G....Read More

To visit the COFO Civil Rights Education Center, contact the staff of the Margaret Walker Center at 601-979-3935 or mwa@jsums.edu.Read More

The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations And the College of Education and Human Development Hosts The JSU Campus Reading Community Book Discussion “Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates”   The Jackson State University Campus Reading Community was launched in Fall 2010 here at Jackson...Read More

In response to the continuing denial of the right to vote and the shooting death of local protestor Jimmy Lee Jackson in February, 1965, citizens from Dallas County, Alabama and SNCC and SCLC activists scheduled a protest march from Selma to Montgomery for March 7th. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, as protesters crossed the Edmund...Read More

Join us Tuesday, March 24, 2015, for the second in a three-part series,  Murder, Mayhem, and Lynching: Constructing Race, Class, and Gender in America with Dr. Deborah H. Barnes, Associate Professor of English at Jackson State University.  This event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO located at 1017...Read More