LTJ 8.07 Robert Luckett

Let's Talk Jackson: Jackson, Mississippi

Our guest this episode is Dr. Robert Luckett, a Jackson native who graduated from Richland Public Schools, left for Yale University, earned his PhD in history from the University of Georgia and returned to Jackson 12 years ago to be a history professor at Jackson State University and the director of the Margaret Walker Center at JSU. Dr. Luckett is a member of the Jackson Public Schools school board, was part of a team involved in the Mississippi History Museum and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, and the author of the book "Joe T. Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma: Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement."