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Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi.Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County.The city had a population of 153,701 at the 2020 census, a significant decline from 173,514, or 11.42%, since the 2010 census, representing the largest decline in population during the decade of any major U.S. city. [4]
Delaware State University (DSU or Del State) is a privately governed, state-assisted historically black land-grant research university in Dover, Delaware. DSU also has two satellite campuses: one in Wilmington and one in Georgetown. The university encompasses four colleges and a diverse population of undergraduate and advanced-degree students.
Jackson is located along the western border of Clarke County at coordinates , on a rise overlooking east bank of the Tombigbee According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 15.8 square miles (41.0 km 2), of which 15.6 square miles (40.5 km 2) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km 2), or 1.21%, is water.
The 2012 Jackson State Tigers football team represented Jackson State University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Tigers were led by seventh-year head coach Rick Comegy and played their home games at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium. They were a member of the East Division Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC).
The fraternity's expansion started with its second (Beta) and third (Gamma) chapters, chartered at Wiley College and Morgan State University respectively in 1915. Today, the fraternity serves through a membership of more than 200,000 men in over 700 chapters in the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean.
The college was founded in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps, who donated the land for the college and $50,000. William Belton Murrah was the college's first president, and Bishop Charles Betts Galloway of the Methodist Episcopal Church South organized the college's early fund-raising efforts.
first African American to serve in the Mississippi State Senate since the Reconstruction era: Bennie Thompson: 1968 U.S. Congressman [47] Walter Turnbull, PhD 1966 founder of the Boys Choir of Harlem [48] Walter Washington: former General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and President of Alcorn State University: Karen Williams Weaver: 1982
ZIP codes: 39110, 39130. Area code(s) ... (now Mississippi State University). [4] ... Jackson State University has also opened a satellite campus in the city ...