Jackson State University October 2, 2019
Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center has received a generous $450,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand its capacity and that of the COFO Civil Rights Education Center. The grant will allow the Margaret Walker Center to hire an oral historian who will oversee a division with more than 2,000 interviews, digitize the center’s research collection, and purchase new equipment for conducting oral histories. The grant will be funded over three years.
“The Margaret Walker Center is deeply indebted to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and I am grateful for Mellon’s confidence in the work that we are doing at the center,” said Dr. Robert Luckett, director of the Margret Walker Center.
The oral historian will also be responsible for developing new collections, including one related to the Gibbs-Green 50th commemoration planned for early 2020, which will celebrate the lives of Phillip Gibbs, 21, and James Green,17.
Gibbs, a junior at JSU, and Green, a senior at the neighboring Jim Hill High....
Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center has received a generous $450,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand its capacity and that of the COFO Civil Rights Education Center. The grant will allow the Margaret Walker Center to hire an oral historian who will oversee a division with more than 2,000 interviews, digitize the center’s research collection, and purchase new equipment for conducting oral histories. The grant will be funded over three years.
“The Margaret Walker Center is deeply indebted to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and I am grateful for Mellon’s confidence in the work that we are doing at the center,” said Dr. Robert Luckett, director of the Margret Walker Center.
The oral historian will also be responsible for developing new collections, including one related to the Gibbs-Green 50th commemoration planned for early 2020, which will celebrate the lives of Phillip Gibbs, 21, and James Green,17.
Gibbs, a junior at JSU, and Green, a senior at the neighboring Jim Hill High....