History
CUBD is Awarded $15,000 Dollars for Preservation Work, Mt. Olive Cemetery
The Center for University-Based Development (CUBD) at JSU recently received a grant for $15,000 dollars to do some preservation work in Mt. Olive Cemetery. The grant was [...]
Mrs. Bertha Bass Fox Celebrates 100th Birthday
Mrs. Bertha Bass Fox is an exceptional woman of unwavering faith and one of the oldest residents living in West Jackson. She was born to the late Tolman and Mazie Bass on [...]
Local Historian & Artist, Charles Lindsey
Mr. Charles Lindsey is native Jacksonian and has lived in Jackson his entire life. He grew up in the William’s Subdivision on the North Side of the Virden Addition [...]
WESTerday Trivia Answer: Charles Evers
The answer to today’s trivia is (C.) Charles Evers. Special thanks to local artist/architect, Jeffrey Yentz, for being kind enough to draw [...]
WESTerday Trivia Answer: Campbell College
Once upon a time, two colleges sat literally across the street from each other. One was Jackson State College, and the other was the answer to today’s trivia–(B.) [...]
COFO Complex now open for public viewing
Think fast: what happens in February? I’m sure the ladies are affectionately screaming “awwww…it’s Valentine’s Day” while some of the guys [...]
WESTerday Trivia Answer: Medgar Wiley Evers
Which renown civil rights leader had an office in the M.W. Stringer Grand Lodge (Masonic Temple) at 1072 John R. Lynch Street and had a funeral in the same Masonic [...]
WESTerday Trivia Answer: Jim Hill High School
Which high school became the first school in Mississippi to offer the academically intense International Baccalaureate Program? The correct answer for this would be [...]
WESTerday Trivia Answer: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which Civil Rights Movement icon founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (one of the organizations involved in West Jackson-based COFO) and in 1963, visited the [...]
