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Jackson State University

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Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Jackson State University
Phone:
+1 601-979-2121

Address:
1400 John R. Lynch St, Jackson, MS 39217, USA

Jackson State University is a public historically black university in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. It was founded during the Reconstruction era in 1877 in Natchez, Mississippi, as Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York City. The Society moved the school to the capital, Jackson, in 1882, renaming it Jackson College. It developed its present campus in 1902. It became a state-supported public institution in 1940. The university is a member of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, Jackson State University is classified as a research university with high research activity. The university is one of the largest HBCUs in the United States and the fourth largest university in Mississippi.Jackson State University's athletic teams, the Tigers, participate in NCAA Division I athletics as a member of the SWAC. The university is the home of the Sonic Boom of the South, a marching band founded in the 1940s.
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