Jackson State, like other historically black college

university, we are the hub for just like black intelligence.

We are the hub for black energy for, you know, young black people.

We're the leaders.

Jackson State University, home of the sonic boom of the South, is the pride of Jackson,

Mississippi.

Jackson, I mean, like the name tells you, the city was so.

Macy Brown is bursting with pride for her school and her hometown, which is one of the

blackest cities in the country.

Being from Jackson means, you know, being resilient, being welcoming, and just really having

a lot of pride from where you from.

Anybody who's from Jackson's going to make sure you know they're from Jackson before

you can do it.

Jackson's spirit of resiliency and self-aliance has been forged over centuries.

Facing some of the country's most brutal racial violence, segregation, and voter suppression,

Jackson became a hub of the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s.

News made a name for themselves by bravely protesting for basic rights.

Like Med Grevers, the Mississippi Field Secretary for the NAACP, who uplead a boycott against

white stories in Jackson in the early 1960s.

Don't shop for anything on Capitol Street.

Let's let the merchants down on Capitol Street feel the economic pinch.

Stories that help to support the white citizen's council dedicated to keeping you and I second

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