To visit the COFO Civil Rights Education Center, contact the staff of the Margaret Walker Center at 601-979-3935 or mwa@jsums.edu.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

In response to the continuing denial of the right to vote and the shooting death of local protestor Jimmy Lee Jackson in February, 1965, citizens from Dallas County, Alabama and SNCC and SCLC activists scheduled a protest march from Selma to Montgomery for March 7th. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, as protesters crossed the Edmund...Read More

Join us Tuesday, March 24, 2015, for the second in a three-part series,  Murder, Mayhem, and Lynching: Constructing Race, Class, and Gender in America with Dr. Deborah H. Barnes, Associate Professor of English at Jackson State University.  This event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO located at 1017...Read More