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Jackson State University. / 32.29611°N 90.20778°W / 32.29611; -90.20778. Jackson State University ( Jackson State or JSU) is a public historically black research university in Jackson, Mississippi. It is one of the largest HBCUs in the United States and the fourth largest university in Mississippi in terms of student enrollment.
The university began as The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi (or Mississippi A&M ), one of the national land-grant colleges established after Congress passed the Morrill Act in 1862. It was created by the Mississippi Legislature on February 28, 1878, to fulfill the mission of offering training in "agriculture ...
The Jackson State killings occurred on Friday, May 15, 1970, at Jackson State College (now Jackson State University) in Jackson, Mississippi. On May 14, 1970, city and state police confronted a group of students outside a campus dormitory. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire, killing two students and injuring twelve. [1]
On October 20, 2003, the Atlanta City Council voted to rename Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport to honor former mayor Maynard Jackson, who died June 23, 2003. The council planned to drop Hartsfield's name from the airport, but public outcry (occurring coincidentally during a debate over the state's flag ) prevented this.
Jackson State had 895 freshmen for the 2023-2024 school year. But in the past two years, the university has seen a decline in enrollment — 6,906 in fall 2022 and 6,564 in the fall 2023. To get ...
1964, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1975, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2010, 2021. The Jackson State Tigers basketball team is the men's basketball team that represents Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. The team competes in the Southwestern Athletic Conference. The team last played in the NCAA Division I men's basketball ...
Union University was established in 1875 in a consolidation of Southwestern Baptist College at Murfreesboro and West Tennessee College at Jackson. In 1907, Dr. T.T. Eaton, a trustee of Southwestern Baptist University, left his 6,000 volume library to the college. Eaton was a former professor of Union University at Murfreesboro, where his father ...
FIPS code. 28-44520. GNIS feature ID. 0673053. Website. www .madisonthecity .com. Madison is the 11th most populous city in Mississippi, United States, located in Madison County, 13 miles (21 km) north of the state capital, Jackson. The population was 27,747 at the 2020 census, [3] up from 24,149 in 2010. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan ...