The Southern Civil Rights Movement: The Pivotal Role of Young People is a six-day (6) workshop designed for middle and high-school students (7th – 12th graders) interested in learning about the contributions and sacrifices made by people who were their age during the Civil Rights Movement. Participants in the intensive workshop will be guided through the history of the...Read More

The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations And the College of Education and Human Development Hosts The JSU Campus Reading Community Book Discussion “Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates”   The Jackson State University Campus Reading Community was launched in Fall 2010 here at Jackson...Read More

The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO and The Institute for Social Justice and Race in conjunction with Astro Blackness present 2016 Planet Deep South Colloquium: Speculative Cultural Production and Africanisms in the American Black South. Planet Deep South is an interdisciplinary colloquium open to all scholars, artists, and students that explore the intellectual and...Read More

A Memorial Symposium on Higher Education -The 24 Year-old Odyssey of the Ayers Litigation: In Remembrance of Attorney Isaiah T. Madison The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO and The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations invites you to participate in a symposium established to honor the memory and work of the late Attorney Isaiah T. Madison. He used...Read More

“Jackson State University to Hosts National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Mississippi Civil Rights” Through a competitive process, faculty from Jackson State University, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Tougaloo College, and Southwest Minnesota State University, who make up the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute on Citizenship and Democracy, were awarded a grant supported by the National...Read More