Derrion Arrington
Derrion Arrington is a historian of Black political power and institutional life in Mississippi. He holds a B.S. from Tougaloo College and an M.A. in history from Tulane University, and has conducted archival research at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi Library Commission. He is the founder of the Laurel Black History Project and the author of three volumes of community history—Standing Firm in Dixie (2024), The Poultry Plantation (2025), and The Full Wagon (2026)—and a 2025 recipient of the Mississippi Historical Society’s Award of Merit. He is at work on two biographies: a life of the soprano Leontyne Price for Yale University Press and a study of the legislator Robert G. Clark Jr. for the University of Illinois Press.
