The Margaret Walker event “Sister Act: Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty” that was postponed March 5 due to weather is now set to be presented on Wednesday, March 18.
The program featuring Dr. Carolyn Brown will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center at 1109 Pinehurst Street in Jackson.
This event is free and open to the public, according to according to Dr. Robert Luckett, director of Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African-American Experience.
Brown is the author of Song of My Life (University Press of Mississippi), the first biography of Margaret Walker, and is also the author of A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty (University Press of Mississippi).
The event is part of the centennial of the late author, poet and JSU professor Margaret Walker.
Called This is My Century: The Life and Legacy of Margaret Walker, the Centennial includes a yearlong series of events that started in January at JSU. Among other events, the Centenniel offers activities at every library branch in Hinds County, said the library system’s executive director Patricia Furr.
Other events scheduled for March:
Thursday, March 19, 4 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Such a Bold Leader: The Unusual Young Adult Life of Margaret Walker
Carolyn Brown
Charles W. Tisdale Library
March 25-27
Oxford Conference for the Book
Margaret Walker Centennial
Oxford, Mississippi
Thursday, March 26, 4 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
FOR MY PEOPLE: What the Internationally Famous Poem Has to Say to Young People Today
C. Liegh McInnis
Medgar Evers Library
For more information, contact the Center mwa@jsums.edu or 601-979-2055