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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 […]
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 […]
Watch Party for the Grand Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture Saturday, September 24, 2016 9:00 am – 11:00 am at the COFO Center 1017 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217 This Event is Free and Open to the Public ****Continental Breakfast Will Be Served****
Come to the History Department Mixer to Meet advisors and professors. Learn about the program. Hear about upcoming courses. Prepare for graduation For more information, please call 601-979-2179
If you are planning to graduate, you will need to take the History Exit Exam. It will be offered October 3, 2016 in the History Department Conference Room (Lib 357). Bring pens and paper. Contact Dr. Valerie Purry, 601.979.2191 for more information.
History department members Robert Luckett, Lomarsh Roopnarine, Kofi Boukman Barima, Charles Holbrook, Joshua Cotton, Mario Azevedo, Rico Chapman, and Janice Brockley will be presenting at the Conference on the Liberal Arts 2016 at JSU on October 6-8. The conference will bring scholars from around the globe to explore the reasons Liberal Arts disciplines are undervalued by students, parents, and others and […]
Keynote address by Dr. William D. Adams, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, at 2 p.m. in the JSU College of Liberal Arts room 166/266. Chairman Adams will discuss "the ways a robust liberal arts education can help students confront the opportunities and concerns of the 21st Century." For further information: Conference Schedule […]
Phi Alpha Theta invites graduate and undergraduate students to submit a paper proposal for the Phi Alpha Theta Mississippi Regional Conference, in the Mississippi Historical Society Meeting on March 2-4, 2016 in Gulfport, Mississippi Papers on any historical topic are welcome. Please submit a 250-word paper proposal with contact information (university affiliation, whether you’re a graduate […]