{"id":779,"date":"2013-11-19T16:40:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/?page_id=779"},"modified":"2026-09-25T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:06:59","slug":"luckett","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/luckett\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Robert Luckett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2023\/11\/bio-2020-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Director, Margaret Walker Center<br \/>\nDirector, COFO Civil Rights Education Center<\/strong><br \/>\nEmail: robert.luckett@jsums.edu<br \/>\nPhone: 601.979.3935<br \/>\nLocation: COFO Center<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DEGREES:<\/strong><br \/>\nPh.D. \u2013 History, University of Georgia (2009)<br \/>\nB.A. \u2013 Political Science, Yale University (1999)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RESEARCH INTERESTS:<\/strong><br \/>\nModern Civil Rights Movement<br \/>\nAfrican American History<br \/>\nAmerican History<br \/>\nPublic History<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>COURSES TAUGHT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Undergraduate:<\/em><br \/>\nHIST 302: Local History \u2013 The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi<br \/>\nHIST 309: History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement<br \/>\nHIST 325: History of Mississippi<br \/>\nHIST 360: African American History to 1877<br \/>\nHIST 361: African American History since 1877<br \/>\nHIST 382: History of the South<br \/>\nHIST 450: Black Political and Social History<\/p>\n<p><em>Graduate:<\/em><br \/>\nHIST 505: Introduction to Public History<br \/>\nHIST 506: Introduction to Museology<br \/>\nHIST 507: Archives and Records Management<br \/>\nHIST 522: Early African American History<br \/>\nHIST 523: Modern African American History<br \/>\nHIST 530: History of the South<br \/>\nHIST 545: Historical Criticism and Historiography<br \/>\nHIST 546: Historical Research for the Thesis<br \/>\nHIST 547: Historical Research for the Project<br \/>\nHIST 550: Oral History<br \/>\nHIST 552: Problems in American History<br \/>\nHIST 593: Graduate Seminar: Independent Study<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:<\/strong><br \/>\nSouthern Historical Association<br \/>\nAmerican Historical Association<br \/>\nOral History Association<br \/>\nAssociation for the Study of African American Life and History<br \/>\nAssociation of African American Museums<br \/>\nMississippi Historical Association<br \/>\nMississippi Museums Association<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Books:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>Joe T. Patterson and the White South\u2019s Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Book Chapters:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Midwife of a Movement\u2019: Margaret Walker and the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival at Jackson State,\u201d Co-author with Ebony Lumumba, The Genius of Phillis Wheatley Peters: A Poet and Her Legacies (Edinburgh UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2026)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorical Memory and the Meredith Monument at Ole Miss,\u201d Chapter 17, pp.280-301, Redefining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConflict and Change, Bombs and Boycotts,\u201d Chapter 5, pp.114-143, A Past That Won\u2019t Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Hell Fired out of Him\u2019: The Muting of James Silver in Mississippi,\u201d Chapter 5, pp.123-137, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, Ted Ownby, ed. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharles Sherrod and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Mass Action and Nonviolence in Albany,\u201d Chapter 9, pp.181-195, The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement, Susan Glisson, ed. (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/files\/2026\/09\/Robert_Luckett_CV-2026.pdf\">FULL CURRICULUM VITA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Director, Margaret Walker Center Director, COFO Civil Rights Education Center Email: robert.luckett@jsums.edu Phone: 601.979.3935 Location: COFO Center &nbsp; DEGREES: Ph.D. \u2013 History, University of Georgia (2009) B.A. \u2013 Political Science, Yale University (1999) &nbsp; RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern Civil Rights Movement African American History American History Public History &nbsp; COURSES TAUGHT: Undergraduate: HIST 302: Local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}