Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on U.S. political, cultural, and African-American history. He is the author of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice, which won the 2007 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award from the Organization of American Historians, for the “best book on any aspect of civil rights from the nation’s founding to the present.”

Dr. Jackson is currently writing a book, Summer of Discontent: The Black Revolution of 1963 and the Framing of Civil Rights, which examines a national debate over the scope and meaning of civil rights at a watershed moment in movement and policy history. He is also conducting research for a long-term book project, American Gandhi: Martin Luther King, Prophetic Leadership, and the Culture of Celebrity. He has advised curators and film makers at the National Civil Rights Museum, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Blackside, Inc., and the Library of Congress. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.