He worked as a State Developer of Negro Education from 1937 to 1955, when he retired.

Journal of Negro Education 35 (Winter 1966): 77-82.

Journal of Negro Education 14 (Winter 1944): 7-18.

Journal of Negro Education 8 (July 1939): 521-529.

Journal of Negro Education 15.2 (Spring 1946): 191-92.

The Journal of Negro Education 64:1 (1995): 87-99.

The Journal of Negro Education 25.2 (1956): 149-51.

Journal of Negro Education 1983 52(3): 250-269.

A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present.

Thompson was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Negro Education for over thirty years.