Both an archive and museum, the Margaret Walker Center is dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture.
Vision and Goals
Founded by Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center seeks to honor her academic and artistic legacy by expanding and promoting its manuscript holdings and oral history collections, interpreting African American history and culture through its museum and exhibits, coordinating public programs on campus and throughout the community, preserving historic structures central to the African American experience, and advocating Black Studies at Jackson State University.
Staff
Robert Luckett, PhD
Director
Email: robert.luckett@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall
Ms. Angela D. Stewart, MA
Archivist
Email: angela.d.stewart@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2460
Location: Ayer Hall
Ms. Alissa Rae Funderburk, MA
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Oral Historian
Email: alissa.funderburk@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3144
Location: Ayer Hall
Mr. Lance Wheeler, MA
Education and Public Relations Manager
Email: lance.wheeler@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.1349
Location: Ayer Hall
Mrs. Trina Toles
Administrative Assistant/Building Administrator
Email: trina.v.toles@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2735
Location: Ayer Hall, Rm 203
Ms. Shelia Bonner
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar
E-mail: shelia.d.bonner@jsums.edu
Mrs. Linda Brady
Receptionist
Email: linda.brady@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall
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Margaret Walker Center
College of Liberal Arts
Jackson State University
Ayer Hall
1400 J.R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17008
Jackson, MS 39217
USA
Phone: 601-979-3935
mwa@jsums.edu
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