Mission
The Margaret Walker Center is an archive, museum, and Black Studies institute, dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture for a local and global community of students, scholars, and supporters.
Vision and Goals
Founded by Margaret Walker in 1968, the Center seeks to honor her academic, artistic, and activist 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 for a degree-granting Black Studies program at Jackson State University.
Staff
Chioma Ajuonuma
Graduate Fellow
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
E-mail: chioma.r.ajuonuma@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall
Alissa Rae Funderburk, MA
Mellon Oral Historian
Email: alissa.funderburk@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3144
Location: Ayer Hall, 322
Patrice Jones-Gibbs, MS
Administrative Assistant/Building Administrator
Email: patrice.l.jones@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2735
Location: Ayer Hall, 203
Arami Harris
Education and PR Manager
Email: arami.l.harris@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.1349
Location: Ayer Hall, 320
Jasmine L. Holmes
Mellon Graduate Assistant
Email: jasmine.l.holmes@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall
Raymond Garrad Lee, MA
Digital Humanities Program Manager
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
Email: raymond.lee@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.6883
Location: Ayer Hall, 315
Robert Luckett, PhD
Director & Professor of History
Email: robert.luckett@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall
Jaylen McDaniels
Undergraduate Fellow
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
Email: jaylen.f.mcdaniels@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall
Jeremy McDuffey
Mellon Graduate Assistant
Email: jeremy.r.mcduffey@students.jsums.edu
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall
Angela D. Stewart, MA
Archivist
Email: angela.d.stewart@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.2460
Location: Ayer Hall, First Floor
Christina J. Thomas, PhD
Mellon Visiting Scholar
Email: christina.thomas@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall, Fourth Floor
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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
Phone: 601-979-3935
mwa@jsums.edu
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Please note that, due to the storms that swept across Mississippi in mid-June and ongoing renovations from the accompanying damage, the Margaret Walker Center will be closed to in-person visitors until further notice. If you have research requests or other questions, e-mail us at mwa@jsums.edu.
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