Tom Ward

My major research interests revelove around the South since the Civil War, with a particular emphasis on the African-American professional classes of the South.  My first book, Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South (Univeristy of Arkansas Press) came out in 2003.  I also have a great deal of experience working in oral history, and served as the project historian for the Public Radio Mississippi series, Mississippi Voices, A Trip Through the Twentieth Century, which aired in 1990.

Currently I am working on a number of projects.  In conjunction with the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville, Georgia, Ihave conducted a number of oral histories with African-American POWs from World War II and the Korean Conflcit.  Eventually I plan to produce a book on the expereinces of African American POWs.  I am also working on a project on black lawyers who practiced in the South in the Jim Crow era, with a focus on Alexander P. Tureaud of New Orelans.  Finally, I am also working on a manucript that deals with Mississippi’s Jim Crow era.