Jackson State University’s Margaret Walker Center for the Study of the African-American Experience is holding two events this week in honor of the centennial of the late author, poet and JSU professor Margaret Walker.
— On Tuesday, March 3, Jackson Mayor Yarber will announce that Margaret Walker’s Jubilee will be the featured book in his new “Jackson Reads” initiative for 2015. There will be a reception and announcement at 5:30 p.m. at the Walker Center in Ayer Hall on the JSU campus, according to Dr. Robert Luckett, Center director.
— On Thursday, March 5, The Eudora Welty Education and Visitors Center at 1109 Pinehurst Street in Jackson will host Dr. Carolyn Brown who will deliver her talk “Sister Act: Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty” at 5:30 p.m.
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).
Both events are free and open to the public.
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:
Tuesday, March 10, 4:15 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for teens using poems and stories by Margaret Walker
Terrence Roberts
Eudora Welty Library
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