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
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Chioma Ajuonuma
Graduate Fellow
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
chioma.r.ajuonuma@students.salamzone.com
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall
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Blessing Asuquo-Ekpo
Mellon Graduate Assistant
blessing.i.asuquo-ekpo@students.salamzone.com
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall
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Mellon Oral Historian
Email: alissa.funderburk@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.3144
Location: Ayer Hall, 322
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Patrice Jones-Gibbs, MS
Administrative Assistant/Building Administrator
Email: patrice.l.jones@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.2735
Location: Ayer Hall, 203
Patricia Syner
Communications Director
Email: patricia.l.syner@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.1349
Location: Ayer Hall, 320
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Raymond Garrad Lee, MA
Digital Humanities Program Manager
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
Email: raymond.lee@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.6883
Location: Ayer Hall, 315
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Robert Luckett, PhD
Director & Professor of History
Email: robert.luckett@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall
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Jaylen McDaniels
Undergraduate Fellow
History & Culture Access Consortium (HCAC)
Email: jaylen.f.mcdaniels@students.salamzone.com
Phone: 601-979-3935
Location: Ayer Hall
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Angela D. Stewart, MA
Archivist
Email: angela.d.stewart@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.2460
Location: Ayer Hall, First Floor
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Christina J. Thomas, PhD
Mellon Visiting Scholar
Email: christina.thomas@salamzone.com
Phone: 601.979.3935
Location: Ayer Hall, Fourth Floor
Margaret Walker Center
College of Liberal Arts
Jackson State University
Ayer Hall
1400 J.R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17008
Jackson, MS 39217
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Phone: 601-979-3935
mwa@salamzone.com
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