Lindsey Hunter

Jackson State University is a historically black university in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1877 in Natchez, Mississippi by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, the Society moved the school to Jackson in 1882, renaming it Jackson College, and developed its... present campus in 1902. It became a state-supported public institution in 1940. A member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, JSU holds an important place in the history of US civil rights. Jackson State University started as Natchez Seminary, a private school, under the auspices of the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, to educate Mississippi's newly freed and underprivileged blacks. Jackson State University is located in Jackson, the capital city and the cultural, political, geographic and business center of Mississippi. The campus is a 245-acre campus with 51 academic and administrative buildings. The main campus is located on JR Lynch St between Prentiss and Dalton St. Ayer Hall was constructed in 1903 and is the oldest structure on campus.
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Utica is a town in Hinds County, Mississippi. The population was 966 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the URJ Henry S. Jacobs Camp and the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience. Utica is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. Utica is located at 32°6′12″N... 90°37′20″W / 32.10333°N 90.62222°W / 32.10333; -90.62222 . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.0 square miles , of which 3.0 square miles is land and 0.33% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 966 people, 339 households, and 241 families residing in the town. The population density was 323.0 people per square mile . There were 397 housing units at an average density of 132.7 per square mile . The racial makeup of the town was 30.54% White, 66.36% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 2.07% from other races, and 0.62% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.83% of the population. There were 339 households out of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.8% were married couples living together, 27.
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