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Thomas has named his studio in Alexandria for his middle name: "My name encompasses the essence of my being. It represents ancestral connections that are woven into the fibers of my existence," Thomas wrote for the beginning of a poem.<ref name=btompkins>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/01/30/morris-taft-thomas-alexandria-educator-sculptor/22586787/|title=Alexandria's Thomas art educator, notable sculptor|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|author=Bob Tompkins|date=January 30, 2015|accessdate=June 20, 2017}}</ref>

Thomas has named his studio in Alexandria for his middle name: "My name encompasses the essence of my being. It represents ancestral connections that are woven into the fibers of my existence," Thomas wrote for the beginning of a poem.<ref name=btompkins>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/story/news/local/2015/01/30/morris-taft-thomas-alexandria-educator-sculptor/22586787/|title=Alexandria's Thomas art educator, notable sculptor|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|author=Bob Tompkins|date=January 30, 2015|accessdate=June 20, 2017}}</ref>

Thomas was in the same fraternity as [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], a 1948 graduate of [[Morehouse College]], and  was the local person chosen to meet King at the Alexandria airport when the civil rights figure spoke in November 1966 at a convention of the former Louisiana Education Association at the Rapides Parish Coliseum.<ref name=btompkins/>

Thomas was in the same fraternity as [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], and  was the local person chosen to meet King at the Alexandria airport when the civil rights figure spoke in November 1966 at a convention of the former Louisiana Education Association at the Rapides Parish Coliseum.<ref name=btompkins/>

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