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Dr. Marvin P. King, Jr.
Board Board Member

Dr. Marvin P. King, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Political Science and African AmericanStudies at the University of Mississippi, where he has spent nearly two decades teaching andwriting about political inequality, African American politics, federalism, the politics of theAmerican South, and the legal foundations of racial inequity. His scholarship explores thepolitical forces that structure […]