Robert Luckett, history professor and head of the Margaret Walker Center, writes: Our governor and the Legislature want to revamp MAEP and strengthen charter schools. We must be wary. It's not by chance that modern school-choice "reform" has a strong connotation with our racist past. Many in the state's white leadership are products of white-flight […]
The program hopes to address the professional shortage of "ethnic" Ph.D. students and the lack of history M.A. programs in central Mississippi. Learn more at “Jackson State Opens MA Plan in History.” Clarion-Ledger. October 6, 1974.
JSU history and other faculty offer a Cross Cultural Awareness program for teachers on Africa. Learn more at “Institutes Set for Teachers.” The Yazoo Herald. May 26, 1984.
History major Mallory Turner attends inauguration of America's first black president. Learn more at “Turner to Attend Obama Inauguration.” Enterprise-Journal. January 18, 2009.
"We, blacks and whites, members of the History and Political Science faculty of Jackson State College," the statement reads, deplore and condemn the actions on May 14-15 of the local and state police in unleashing a thirty-second fusillade of several hundred bullets into the crowds of people within and near the women's dormitory… Such actions, in […]
The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library will host an exhibit of photographic prints from the collection of Levi J. Rowan, former president of Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Alcorn State University) from Jan. 30-Feb. 24. Part of the Margaret Walker Center's permanent collection at Jackson State University, 10 black-and-white framed photographs, depicting individuals, families, groups, office scenes […]
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 featuring Curtis Granderson at COFO (1017 JR Lynch St.) at 6pm Thursday, Feb. 9. Before Jackie Robinson […]
Award-winning author Nicholas Lemann will give a talk on “The History of the History of Reconstruction” at the Old Capitol at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, February 7. Lemann is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University and the author of five acclaimed books, including Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War. […]
The History Department at Mississippi State University invites undergraduate scholars to submit papers for the ninth annual Symposium for History Undergraduate Research (SHUR). The symposium, "Looking Back to the Future: Examining the Anomalies of the Past," will provide students with the opportunity to present their research in the format of an academic history conference and […]