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Dec. 9: MWC unveils Julius Thompson Papers and Exhibit

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Thompson exhibit announcement

On Friday, December 9, at 4 p.m., the Margaret Walker Center will unveil the Julius Thompson Personal Papers and the exhibition "Mississippi Witness: The Life of Julius Thompson" in Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University.

 

Dr. Julius E. Thompson was professor of history and director of the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia.  Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 15, 1946, Thompson attended elementary and high school in Natchez, Mississippi, and received his BA in history from Alcorn State University (1969). He subsequently earned his MA (1971) and PhD (1973) in American history at Princeton University where his adviser was James M. McPherson. 

Beginning with his PhD dissertation on Hiram R. Revels, Thompson's writings included several works related to Mississippi. Besides his work on Revels, published in 1982, other works included The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865–1985: A Directory (1988), The Black Press in Mississippi, 1865–1985 (1993), and Percy Greene and the Jackson Advocate: The Life and Times of a Radical Conservative Black Newspaperman, 1897–1977 (1994). Thompson's other books related to the African-American experience in the Mississippi were Black Life in Mississippi: Essays on Political, Social, and Cultural Studies in a Deep South State (2001) and Lynching in Mississippi: A History, 1865–1965 (2006).