Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO<\/p>\n
1017 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39204<\/p>\n
The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations, The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages, and The Department of History and Philosophy present: Fences: African Americans in Major League Baseball.<\/em><\/p>\n Before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in 1947, African-Americans had no choice but to play in the Negro Leagues. Because of this integration, one would think that African-Americans would naturally gravitate to baseball. That has not been the case. As of now, the percentage of African-Americans playing baseball is just below eight percent. The numbers did rise during the 1970s and 1980s. Since that time, the numbers have been on a steady decline. Curtis Granderson, outfielder for the New York Mets and poet laureate C. Liegh McInnis, will discuss this trend and other issues related to African American baseball players.<\/p>\n *****************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n Monday, February 13, 2017, 6:00 pm \u2013 The Fannie Lou\u00a0 Hamer Institute @ COFO and Gallery 1 Pay Tribute to Nelson Mandela Through Art and Scholarship<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:30 pm<\/strong> \u2013 Book Talk<\/strong> – The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, 1017 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS, 39204;<\/p>\n JSU Reading Community Book Talk: In this session of the 2016-2017 academic year, The JSU Campus\u00a0Reading\u00a0Community\u00a0will discuss the book,\u00a0Student Resistance to Apartheid at the University of Fort Hare: Freedom Now, a Degree Tomorrow<\/em> (Lexington Books, 2016) featuring\u00a0the author, Dr. Rico D. Chapman. <\/strong><\/p>\n The exhibition of photographs titled \u201cNelson Mandela:\u00a0 His Life in the Struggle\u201d chronicles the life and times of Nelson Mandela and were purchased by Dr. Chapman from the Robben Island Museum in Cape Town, South Africa.\u00a0 Dr. Chapman was an exchange student at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, where Mandela was also a student in 1939.\u00a0 He states that \u201cstudents at JSU will be fascinated by the history of the freedom struggle in South Africa as it has many commonalities to the civil rights movement in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n 6:00 pm \u2013 Exhibition – <\/strong>Gallery 1, 1100 John R. Lynch Street, Suite 4, Jackson, MS 39203<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"Granderson](\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event.jpg\")
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