Jackson State University, College of Liberal Arts, The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, and The Margaret Walker Center
Present
Alysia Burton Steele
Author of
Delta Jewels:
In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom
The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO and the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University will host Alysia Burton Steele on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 6:00 pm. Steele is the author of Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom, a book of oral histories and portraits of over 50 African American church mothers from the Mississippi Delta, including civil rights icon Myrlie Evers-Williams. The book has received national media coverage, including The New York Times, NBC, National Public Radio, USA Today, Chicago Sun-Times, Southern Living, Essence and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area recently forged the “Delta Jewels Oral History Partnership” with Alysia Burton Steele, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalism professor at the University of Mississippi. The partnership will provide opportunities for MDNHA and The Delta Center for Culture and Learning at Delta State University to present oral history programs and workshops with regional, statewide and national organizations. The partnership is designed to make oral history education and awareness accessible to diverse communities, as well as to promote Mississippi Delta culture and history on a broader scale.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO and the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University will be the second to host an oral history program under this new partnership.
Please join us on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 6:00 at the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO located at 1017 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217.
Reception to follow.
For more information, please contact The Hamer Institute @ COFO
Visit us online: www.jsums.edu/HamerInstitute
601-979-1563 or 601-979-4348
email: COFO.Center@jsums.edu
