{"id":3969,"date":"2025-05-22T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2025-05-22T21:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T21:43:23","slug":"students-continue-legacy-of-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/2025\/05\/22\/students-continue-legacy-of-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Continue Legacy of Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students Continue Legacy of Activism<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">In some cases, these groups focus on community building, like the Tiger Transfers and Commuters that strive to create a sense of belonging for fellow JSU students while also mobilizing for other student organizations. In other cases, groups like JSU Votes meet to discuss ways to inspire political engagement and awareness across campus. We also frequently work with the JSU chapter of the NAACP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Want to bring your student group to COFO?<\/span> <span style=\"color: #333399\"><a style=\"color: #333399\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/margaretwalkercenter\/visit-us\/\">Schedule a visit<\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000\">to the center today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">For featured media coverage about the impactful work of our community of young people throughout the past few years, follow the links below.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/resources\/stories\/vote-your-voice-colleges-universities-grants\/\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">Rekindling the Flame: Jackson State University students continue historic fight for the vote in Mississippi<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8211; Southern Poverty Law Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjtv.com\/video\/jsu-holds-project-build-day-for-new-pocket-park\/10222627\/\"><span style=\"color: #333399\">JSU holds project build day for new pocket park<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8211; WJTV<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\"><a style=\"color: #333399\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIZzcPuAUsO\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">Sisterhood in Action<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> &#8211; JSU NAACP<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333399\"><a style=\"color: #333399\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHZCLu3RMeF\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">JSU NAACP General Body Meeting<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\"> &#8211; JSU NAACP<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3977,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}