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The Margaret Walker Center (MWC), located in the heritage listed Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, is a public archive and museum dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of the culture and history of the African American community. [1]
The Roman numeral before the diocese name represents where in the sequence that bishop falls; e.g., the fourth bishop of Philadelphia is written "IV Philadelphia". Where a diocese is in bold type it indicates that the bishop is the current bishop of that diocese. Titular sees are not listed. Under consecrators are the numbers (or letters ...
Jackson College in 1889. Jackson State University developed from Natchez Seminary, founded October 23, 1877, in Natchez, Mississippi.The seminary was affiliated with the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, who established it "for the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states".
[3] [7] This connection led to Vanderbilt giving McTyeire two $500,000 (~$11.6 million in 2023) gifts, which the bishop used to found Vanderbilt University. [2] [3] [7] The Commodore's gift was given with the understanding that McTyeire would serve as chairman of the university's Board of Trust for life. He was appointed President of Vanderbilt ...
Jackson State’s 1970 commencement was canceled because of the bloodshed, and graduates that year received their diplomas in the mail, if at all. On Saturday, 74 of the 400-plus 1970 grads donned ...
Kopacz was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Scranton on May 7, 1977, at St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton by Bishop Joseph McCormick. [5]After his ordination, the diocese assigned Kopacz as parochial vicar of Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Brodheadsville, Pennsylvania, and Epiphany Parish in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
The 1968 Jackson State Tigers football team represented Jackson State College ... at Bishop * Dallas, TX: W 21–15: 3,682 [11]
Educator, academic administrator, memoirist, college president Jacob Lorenzo Reddix (1897–1973) was an American educator, academic administrator, and memoirist. [ 1 ] He was President of Mississippi Negro Training School (now Jackson State University ) in Jackson, Mississippi , from 1940 until 1967. [ 2 ]