JSU recognizes Dr. Dernoral Davis for thirty-five years of service as associate professor and department chair in the Department of History. A Jackson native and graduate of JSU, Dr. Davis recieved his doctorate from the State University of New York. He specializes in African American,...Read More
The Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs art exhibit has been extended at the Margaret Walker in Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University through Friday, December 2. Read More
Wednesday, November 9, 2016 at 6:00 p.m., The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO will host a film screening of “The 30th of May.” For over 100 years, the city of Natchez had two Memorial Day celebrations—one black and one white. By the mid-1990's, the white celebration faded away, while the black celebration known as the "30th...Read More
COFO Center receives $216,000 grant to study Mississippi civil rights movement. Read more about it here. Read More
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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...Read More
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...Read More