Jun 23  Mississippi's Urban University
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 23/06/2016

John Michael Perkins, a recent graduate of Jackson State University and an intern with the Natchez National Historical Park, presents a Natchez History Minute about the  origins of his alma mater.  In 1877, the American Baptist Home Mission Society established a seminary in Natchez, which would be the forerunner of Jackson State.