White Historian Named Head of Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center at Historically Black Jackson State University

Robby Luckett is a native of Richland, Mississippi. He earned his undergraduate degree at Yale and a Ph.D. in history at the University of Georgia. This summer, Dr. Luckett, now 32 years old, returned home to become the director of the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center at historically black Jackson State University. The center holds a vast treasure trove of documents, photographs, and oral history archives on blacks in the state of Mississippi. Luckett plans to make the assets of the center more accessible to researchers and scholars. He has debuted a new Web page for scholars to become more familiar with the collections.

Dr. Luckett will also teach black studies courses at Jackson State.