2024
Jubilee Picnic
COFO Civil Rights Education Center
Jackson State University
Noon, Thursday, July 11, 2024
54th Annual Commemoration of the Gibbs-Green Tragedy
Jackson State University Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza
4 p.m., Tuesday, May 14, 2024
18th Annual Creative Arts and Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival
Jackson State University Student Center
Featuring Sonia Sanchez
Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, 2024
A Decade of Action: Jackson State, Lynch Street, and the Civil Rights Movement
An Exhibition: Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Barnard Observatory, University of Mississippi
January 30-March 1, 2024
Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi Contest
JSU Student Center Theater
Noon, Wednesday, January 31, 2024
56th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
Jackson State University
10 a.m., Friday, January 19, 2024
29th Annual For My People Awards
Jackson State University Student Center Ballroom A
11:30 a.m., Friday, January 19, 2024
2023 Programming and Events
Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival
50th Anniversary Reconvening
Jackson State University
November 1-4, 2023
Mississippi Book Festival
State Capitol Building
Jackson
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Association of African American Museums
Annual Meeting
Nashville, Tennessee
July 26-29, 2023
Jubilee Picnic
Student Center Ballroom A
Jackson State University
11:30 a.m., July 7, 2023
53rd Annual Gibbs-Green Commemoration
Virtual Reality Unveiling, Wreath Laying, & Reception
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Catherine Coleman Initiative
Literary Arts, Food, and Justice
Jackson State University
June 4-9, 2023
17th Annual Creative Arts & Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival
Margaret Walker, the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival,
and the Legacy of Black Women Writers
Dr. Maryemma Graham, Keynote
Jackson State University
Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15, 2023
This Freedom Rider Invites You into My Prison Cell
Documentary Screening with Freedom Riders
Hezekiah Watkins and Rabbi Phil Posner
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 23, 2023
Poetry Out Loud
Statewide Preliminary Contest of Mississippi
Student Center Theater
Jackson State University
12 p.m., Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Housing Insecurity in Mississippi
An Exhibition
Johnson Hall Art Gallery, Jackson State University
November 1, 2022 – January 31, 2023
55th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., Birthday Convocation
Jackson State University
9:00 a.m., Friday, January 13, 2023
28th Annual For My People Awards
Jackson State University
11:30 a.m., Friday, January 13, 2023
2022 Programming and Events
Coffee, Chat, and Crafts: Jackson Bicentennial
Jayne Avenue Neighborhood Association
Margaret Walker Alexander Public Library
9:30 to 11:30 a.m., Saturday, November 19
Housing Insecurity in Mississippi
Starkville Strong
Opening Roundtable Discussion
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
6 p.m., Thursday, November 10, 2022
The Lantern Project: An Introduction
Digital Slave Records of Mississippi
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
6 p.m., Monday, October 10, 2022
Change the Pattern
AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibition
JSU Student Center
Wednesday, September 28, to Tuesday, October 4
Mississippi Book Festival
State Capitol Building
Jackson
Saturday, August 20, 2022
Association of African American Museums
Annual Meeting
Miami, Florida
August 10-13, 2022
AIDS Memorial Quilt
Panel-Making Workshop
Art Gallery F.D. Hall Music Center
Jackson State University
10 am to 2 pm, Friday, August 5
11 am to 4 pm, Saturday, August 6
Queen Mother Moore
Legacy Symposium and Celebration
New Iberia, Louisiana
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Jubilee Picnic
JSU Student Center Ballroom
11:30 a.m., Thursday, July 7, 2022
Liberty House and Craft Cooperatives
A Virtual Exhibition
Opening Conversation with Dr. Thomas Kersen
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
4:00 p.m., Thursday, June 23, 2022
Thee Black Pride in Jackson
Exhibition Opening and Reception
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
4:00 p.m., June 1, 2022
Dorothy Moore Blues Trail Marker
In conjunction with Visit Jackson
FD Hall Music Center, Jackson State University
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 25, 2022
52nd annual Gibbs-Green Commemoration
Exhibit Unveiling, Wreath Laying, & Reception
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
11:oo a.m., Saturday, May 14, 2022
Folklife and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
Roundtable Discussion
COFO Civil Rights Education Center
6:00 p.m., Tuesday, April 12, 2022
16th Annual CASE Festival
Past, Present, & Future: A Legacy in Music
Featuring Nellie Mack, Rhonda Richmond, Cassandra Wilson
MWC Facebook, YouTube, and JSU Student Center
Friday and Saturday, April 8 and 9, 2022
Evicted Roundtable
MSU School of Architecture
4:00 p.m., Tuesday, March 29, 2022
49th annual Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival Commemoration
Tuesday to Saturday, March 22-26, 2022
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Bravo IV: Truth and Flame
Pre-concert Discussion
Dr. Maryemma Graham and Dr. Ebony Lumumba
Mississippi Museum of Art
5:45 p.m., Saturday, March 5, 2022
Concert: “Three Songs on Poems by Margaret Walker”
Southern Song
Ex-Slave
My Truth and My Flame (I am a Black Woman)
Aundi Marie Moore, soprano
Crafton Beck, composer and director
Thalia Mara Hall
7:30 p.m., Saturday, March 5, 2022
Margaret Walker: Food, Fellowship,
& Forms of Activism
Catfish Row Museum
Dr. Robert Luckett
2:00 p.m., Saturday, February 26, 2022
The Legacy of Phillis Wheatley in Africa and the African Diaspora
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
2:00 p.m., Thursday, February 24, 2022
Imani Perry: South to America
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
Sponsored by the Mississippi Book Festival and Lemuria Books
6:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 16, 2022
27th Annual For My People Awards
Dr. Aisha Nyandoro, Mr. Dennis Dahmer, Prof. Natasha Trethewey
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
6:00 p.m., Thursday, January 13, 2022
54th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., Birthday Convocation
Dr. Diedre L. Wheaton
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
10:00 a.m., Friday, January 14, 2022
2021 Programming and Events
Stitch Their Names Memorial Project
Quilting Exhibit
October 25 – December 17, 2021
Margaret Walker Center, Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
The Foundation of Stitching
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
6:00 p.m., Thursday, October 28, 2021
Activism in Quilts, Art, and Music
Margaret Walker Center, Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., Reception
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Program
Thursday, November 18, 2021
“Evicted: An Exhibition of the National Building Museum”
Johnson Hall Art Gallery, Jackson State University
June 28 – October 3, 2021
Telling the Story of COVID-19 and Eviction
Bracey Harris, NBC News
Nick Judin, Mississippi Free Press
Robert Luckett, Margaret Walker Center, moderator
Margaret Walker Center Facebook
6:00 p.m., Thursday, August 12, 2021
Impact of Eviction on Children and Families:
The Resources Available
McKinney-Vento Homelessness Program, Jackson Public School District
Stewpot Community Services
Mississippi United to End Homelessness
Joan Wesley, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, moderator
Margaret Walker Center Facebook
6:00 p.m., Thursday, August 26, 2021
Eviction and the Law: Knowing Your Rights
John Jopling, Mississippi Center for Justice
Keisha Stokes-Hough, Southern Poverty Law Center
The Hon. Zakiya Summers, Mississippi State Representative
Kateryna Malaia, Mississippi State School of Architecture, moderator
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
6:00 p.m., Thursday, September 9, 2021
The Intersection of Policy, Activism and Economic Well-Being
Dr. Gwen Bouie-Haynes, National Association of Social Workers
Matthew Campbell, Mississippi NAACP
Diane Standaert, Hope Policy Institute
Gloria Shields, Children’s Defense Fund & Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative
Margaret Walker Center Facebook and YouTube
6:00 p.m., Tuesday, September 28, 2021
October 3, 2021
Exhibition closes
Students and community partners listening party, oral history project
School of Architecture, Mississippi State University, Starkville
5:00 p.m., Saturday, October 9, 2021
COFO Mural Dedication
10:00 a.m., Saturday, July 24, 2021
Housing, Economic Insecurity and Activism:
Voices of Those Impacted
Springboard to Opportunities
Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity
Silvina Barrera, Mississippi State School of Architecture, moderator
Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, JSU Downtown Campus
6:00 p.m., Thursday, July 22, 2021
Jubilee Picnic
Margaret Walker’s 106th Birthday Celebration
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
Evicted: An Exhibition — virtual opening conversation
Alieza Durana, Princeton Eviction Lab
Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University
6:00 p.m., Thursday, July 1, 2021
51st Gibbs-Green Commemoration
Class of 1970 Commencement Ceremony
Honorary Doctorates: Phillip Gibbs and James Green
Doris Derby exhibit and gallery talk: “May 1970”
May 14 and 15, 2021
Tracing Your Family Tree: An Introduction to Genealogy Research
Robert F. Smith Explore Your Family History Center of NMAAHC
With the Margaret Walker Center
Hannah Scruggs, Lisa Crawley, Angela Stewart, and Alissa Rae Funderburk
12:00 p.m., Thursday, April 22, 2021
CASE Festival: Kiese Laymon keynote
Panel Discussion: Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground
April 9 and 10, 2021
Tomorrow’s Tomorrow at 50
Reflections with Joyce Ladner
Featuring Dr. Joyce Lander, Dr. Thornton Dill
& Shelia Bonner, moderator
MWC Facebook Page
6:00 p.m., Thursday, March 25, 2021
A Conversation with Kiese Laymon and Jesmyn Ward
New Mississippis Project and the
African American Read-in at Augusta University
3:00 p.m., Thursday, February 17, 2021
Connecting Lived Experience to Action
West Virginia University Social Justice Summit #2
Virtual Summit for WVU Faculty, Staff, Students, and Community
Featured Speaker and facilitator Alissa Rae Funderburk, Oral Historian (MWC)
12:00-3:00 p.m., Thursday, February 11, 2021
Columbia University Career Conversations Series
Virtual Panel on the Job Title “Oral Historian”
Featuring Liza Zapol (Smithsonian), Ellen Brooks (Wisconsin Library System), Shanna Farrell (UC Berkley) and Alissa Rae Funderburk (JSU)
5:00 p.m., Tuesday, February 8, 2021
“May 1970: The Gibbs-Green Tragedy at Jackson State College”
Documentary Photography Exhibit by Doris Derby
Virtual Gallery Talk
6:00 p.m., Thursday, February 4, 2021
53rd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation
Virtual program featuring keynote Dave Dennis
Jackson State University Facebook Page
10 a.m., Friday, January 15, 2021
26th annual AARP Mississippi For My People Awards
Virtual program honoring:
Doris Derby, Dave Dennis, and David Dennis, Jr.
MWC Facebook Page
6:00 p.m., Thursday, January 14, 2021
2020 Programming and Events
The Voice of Survivors: The Legacy of Gibbs-Green
50th Commemoration of the Gibbs-Green Tragedy
Gloria Green McCray, Demetrius Gibbs,
Phillip Gibbs, Jr., and Nancy Bristow (moderator)
6:00 p.m., Thursday, December 3, 2020
75th Anniversary of Richard Wright’s Black Boy
Jerry Ward, Charlie Braxton, Kiese Laymon,
Julia Wright, Kevin Powell, and C. Liegh McInnis (moderator)
6:00 p.m., Thursday, November 12, 2020
“Popular Media, Memory, and Generational Inheritances:
The Power of Intersectional Narratives”
Virtual Exhibit and Discussion
Featuring JSU alumnus and artist, John Jennings
6:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 10, 2020
2020 Oral History Association Annual Meeting
“The Quest for Democracy: One Hundred Years of Struggle”
October 19-24, 2020 Virtual Meeting
MWC Oral Historian Alissa Rae Funderburk will chair the session
Education in High School and University Involves Listening:
Creating Diverse Curriculum Content in Dissertations
2:30pm to 4:00pm Wednesday, October 21, Zoom, Room 1
And present her own paper in the session
Identity & Citizenship in Religious Communities
10:30am to 12:00pm Thursday, October 22, Zoom, Room 1
Community Collaboration:
The Margaret Walker Center and the Scott-Ford House, Inc.
Society of Mississippi Archivists Virtual Table Talk
Angela Stewart, Archivist, Margaret Walker Center
Dr. Alferdteen Harrison, Founder, Scott Ford House, Inc.
Noon, Friday, September 25, 2020
Grrrl Justice
Virtual short narrative film screening and panel discussion
featuring Shontina Vernon, director of Grrrl Justice; Jensen Luke Matar, TEAP-MS Advocacy Coordinator; Ayana Jones, Jackson State University student; and Arekia Bennett, Executive Director of MS Votes
6:00 p.m. Friday, September 18, 2020
Gardner Institute Transformative Conversations
Institutional Commitments to Inclusivity and Equity
The guests for this session will be:
Dr. Shane Williamson, Vice President of Institutional Diversity, Lindenwood University
Dr. Robby Luckett, Director of the Margaret Walker Center & Associate Professor, JSU
1:00-2:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 16, 2020
The Belmont Abbey College History Department
History Digest Guest Speaker: Lance Wheeler, Education & PR Manager of MWC
11:15 a.m., Thursday, September, 10, 2020
Comcast Newsmakers | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
Equality, Identity & Hope: Race in America
Dr. Robby Luckett Director of the Margaret Walker Center
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, September 9, 2020
The MAX (Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience) Museum
2020 Hall of Fame Induction honoring Margaret Walker
Thursday, September 3, 2020
Dynamic Black Women In Mississippi
Instagram Live Conversations
Hosted by Alissa Rae Funderburk, MWC Oral Historian
Featuring Aisha Carson, Amanda Furdge, & Arekia Bennett
6:00 p.m., Thursdays, August 13, 20 and 27, 2020
Columbia University Oral History Master’s Program
Summer Workshop Series on Anti-Oppression and Oral History
Talking White: An Anti-Oppression View Towards Transcribing Black Narrators
Taught by Alissa Rae Funderburk, MWC Oral Historian
3:00 – 6:00 p.m., Saturday, August 22, 2020
Hoge Fenton Zoom Webinar
Black Lives Matter: No More Happy Talk
Featuring Dr. Robby Luckett, Hon. Ladoris Cordell, Chris Bridges, & Dan Ballesteros
2:00 – 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Curating Our Culture
Minority Representation in Museums
Featuring Lance Wheeler, Adrienne Chadwick, & John Spann
12:30 p.m., Friday, August 14, 2020
www.facebook.com/jacksonadvocate
The Diversity Project Webinar Series
August Educational Webinars
The Mississippi Plan and Rise of Jim Crow
Hosted by Leon Burnette
Featuring Dr. Robert Luckett, MWC Director
7:00 p.m., Thursday, August 13, 2020
Jackson State University Facebook Page
50th Commemoration of the Gibbs-Green Tragedy
Virtual Townhall
Dale Gibbs, Widow of Phillip Gibbs
Vernon Weakley, Student Survivor
Gailya Porter, Student Survivor
Lap Baker, Student Survivor
Jackson State University
7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 14, 2020
“Jackson State and the Civil Rights Movement
on the Lynch Street Corridor”
(POSTPONED)
Reception and Exhibition Grant Opening
Friday, April 3, 2020
“The Gibbs-Green Tragedy at 50: The Photographs of Doris Derby”
(POSTPONED)
Reception and Exhibition Grand Opening
Friday, April 3, 2020
14th Annual Creative Arts and Scholarly Engagement (CASE) Festival
(CANCELLED: The 2020 CASE Festival will be reconvened in 2021.)
Featuring JSU alumnus and artist, John Jennings
“Popular Media, Memory, and Generational Inheritances:
The Power of Intersectional Narratives”
Jackson State University Student Center
Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4, 2020
Grrrl Justice (POSTPONED)
Short Narrative Film Screening
Ayer Hall, Margaret Walker Center
6:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 18, 2020
March of Remembrance
JSU Student Government Association & Campus Activities Board
50th Commemoration of the Gibbs-Green Tragedy
Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza to Alexander Hall, Jackson State University
6:30 p.m., Thursday, February 27, 2020
“Will There Ever Be Justice for Emmett Till?”
Duvalier Malone, lecture
Margaret Walker Center, Ayer Hall
6 p.m., Thursday, February 6, 2020
Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi
Student Center Theater
Jackson State University
12 p.m., Wednesday, February 5, 2020
52nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
10 a.m., Friday, January 17, 2020
25th Annual For My People Awards ($20 tickets)
JSU Student Center Ballroom
Noon, Friday, January 17, 2020
2010-2019 Programming and Events
Jackson State University
Juried Student Art Competition
Ayer Hall Gallery, Margaret Walker Center
Thursday, October 3 – Thursday, November 7, 2019
Gallery Talk
Eric Etheridge, Photographer
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
6 p.m., Tuesday, October 29, 2019
River Road on the Mississippi
Roy Lewis Documentary Photography Exhibition
Ayer Hall Gallery, Margaret Walker Center
Through September 25, 2019
Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Immediately following unveiling
“Bolden”
Film screening
JSU Student Center Theater
6:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, 2019
“How to Raise a Black Son in America”
Student conversation with Clint Smith
Sponsored by the Greater Jackson Arts Council
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
1:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2019
For My People Awards Reception
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
6 p.m., Thursday, January 17, 2019
BlackKklansman, The Hate U Give, and Jubilee
A Student Discussion about Socio-Political Art as Commentary
Student Center Theater
Jackson State University
10 a.m., Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Mississippi Book Festival
Mississippi State Capitol
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Association of African American Museums
Annual Meeting, Hapmton, Virginia
August 9-11, 2018
Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
11:30 a.m., Monday, July 9, 2018
48th Gibbs-Green Commemoration
Alexander Hall
Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza
Jackson State University
Noon, Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Voter Registration Campaign
Jackson State University
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
50th Commemoration of the Assassination
of Dr. Martin Luther King., Jr.
Bell Toll, Centennial Bell
Jackson State University
Wednesday, April 4, 2018, 6 p.m.
Poetry Out Loud
JSU Student Center Theater
Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Noon
50th Martin Luther King Birthday Convocation
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
Friday, January 23, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
23rd Annual For My People Awards Luncheon
JSU Student Center Ballroom
Friday, January 23, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
Magnolia Avenue High School
State Historical Marker Dedication
Vicksburg, Mississippi
December 28, 2017
How Mississippi Changed America
Conversations about the Civil Rights Movement
Panel Discussion
Charlie Cobb, Emilye Crosby, Francoise Hamlin
Tiyi Morris, and Randall Pinkston, moderator
House Chamber, Old Capitol Museum
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4:00 p.m.
Conversation with Ralph Eubanks and Clay Carson
House Chamber, Old Capitol Museum
Thursday, December 7, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
A Place for All People
Exhibition on the National Museum of
African American History and Culture
Central Mississippi Correctional Facility
Thursday, December 7, 2017
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Book signing and unveiling
Ayer Hall
3:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Ibram X Kendi
2016 National Book Award Winner
Cora Norman Lecture Series
Mississippi Humanities Council
Russell C. Davis Planetarium
6:00 p.m., Saturday, October 7, 2017
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Scott Joplin’s operetta Treemonisha
Thalia Mara Hall
7:30 p.m., Saturday, October 7, 2017
The Farish Street Exhibit: Where Do We Go from Here?
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Public Symposium
JSU Student Center Theater
2:00 – 3:50 p.m.
Reception
Johnson Hall Art Department Foyer
4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Photography Exhibition
Doris Derby Gallery Talk
Johnson Hall Art Department
6:00 p.m.
Story for All: The R.O.O.T.S. of Sunflower County
Exhibition
Ayer Hall, Margaret Walker Center
Jackson State University
Friday, June 1 – Friday, July 28, 2017
Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Friday, July 7, 2017, 11:30 a.m.
The R.O.O.T.S. of Sunflower County
Opening Exhibition Reception
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Friday, June 2, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
Afro-PWW (Publishing Without Walls)
Digital Incubation Workshop
JSU H.T. Sampson Library
Friday, May 19, 2017, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
JSU Night at New Stage Theare
“Best of Enemies”
Wednesday, March 8, 7:30 p.m.
6:30 p.m. History of Desegregation in Jackson
Robert Luckett, PhD, Margaret Walker Center Director
Poetry Out Loud
JSU Student Center Theater
Wednesday, February 1, 2017, Noon
MWC Director Robert Luckett
“The Mississippi State Flag”
Mississippi NAACP State Convention
Youth and College Division
Natchez, Mississippi
Saturday, October 12, 2016, 10:30 a.m.
National History Day Workshop
Margaret Walker and the Margaret Walker Center
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Saturday, October 22, 2016, 10:00 a.m.
Kathy Times
Reception and Keynote Address
JSU Downtown Campus
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 6:00 p.m.
West Jackson Rotary Club
Margaret Walker lecture
Dr. Robert Luckett, MWC Director
JSU Student Center, room 3241
Noon, Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Thursday, July 7, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Reception for An Ordinary Hero Exhibition
JSU Ayer Hall
Friday, April 15, 2016, 4-6 p.m.
Migrants, Refugees, and Modern-Day Civil Rights
A Roundtable Discussion
Brown-Tougaloo Partnership Civil Rights Trip
Ayer Hall, JSU
March 29, 2016, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Dream On documentary
JSU Student Center Theater
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 6:00 p.m.
For My People Awards Luncheon
JSU Student Center Ballroom
Friday, January 15, 2016, 11:30 a.m.
Hear Dr. Luckett’s discussion of his new book
in an interview with Karen Brown
on Mississippi Public Broadcasting
and Mississippi Edition.
Crisis in the Village: Restoring the Promise of Public Education
Mt. Helm Baptist Church
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 6:30 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Eudora Welty Library
The Thoughts I Will Keep from the Margaret Walker Centennial Celebration
Robert Luckett
Tuesday, November 10, 2015, 6:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Discussison of Margaret Walker’s Poem OCTOBER JOURNEY
C. Liegh McInnis
Bolden/Moore Library, Jackson
Thursday, October 8, 2015, 6:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
In the light of the Civil Rights’ Movement and the Changes
in the Last 50 Years for African-Americans, Is JUBILEE dated?
Doris Ginn
Eudora Welty Library
Thursday, September 24, 2015, 6:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
My Lord! What Women! What Modern Women
Can Learn from the Female Characters in JUBILEE
RaShell Smith-Spears
Beverly Brown Library—Byram, Mississippi
Thursday, August 27, 6:00 p.m.
Mississippi Book Festival
Margaret Walker Centennial
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for children & adults
using works by Margaret Walker
Janice Neal-Vincent
Willie Morris Library
Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 10:00 a.m.
Margaret Walker Centennial
Gala Celebration
For My People: A New Musical Work
JSU Student Center Ballrooms
Friday, July 10, 2015, 5:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for children & adults
using works by Margaret Walker
Janice Neal-Vincent
Margaret Walker Alexander Library
Thursday, July 9, 2015, 10:00 a.m.
Margaret Walker Centennial
Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall
Tuesday, July 7, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
Anderson Monarchs
Under-13 Baseball Exhibition
with the Richland Junkstarz
JSU Baseball Field
Saturday, June 27, 2015, 12:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Inquiring Minds Want to Know:
How Much of JUBILEE was Actually True?
Quisenberry Library—Clinton, Mississippi
Thursday, June 18, 6:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for children using
poems and stories by Margaret Walker
Terrence Roberts
Quisenberry Library—Clinton, Mississippi
Saturday, June 6, 1:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Writing workshop for children including a
dramatic reading/performance of Margaret Walker’s works
Katrina Byrd
Charles Tisdale Library
Monday, June 1, 2015, 10:00 a.m.
45th Commemoration of the Gibbs-Green Tragedy
Alexander Hall, Jackson State University
Friday, May 15, 2015, 1:00 p.m.
Press Release
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Who in the World Was Margaret Walker:
Bringing the Legend Alive for 21st Century Youth
Carolyn Brown
Raymond Library—Raymond, Mississippi
Thursday, May 7, 4:00 p.m.
Nichole Bridges, Curator for African Art
Saint Louis Art Museum
Ayer Hall Gallery Talk
Friday, April 24, 10:00 a.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for children using
poems and stories by Margaret Walker
Terrence Roberts
Richard Wright Library
Tuesday, April 21, 4:15 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
RICHARD WRIGHT, DAEMONIC GENIUS:
Margaret Walker’s Experiment with Autobiographical Biography
Jerry Ward
Richard Wright Library
Thursday, April 16, 6:00 p.m.
This Is My Century: The Life and Legacy of Margaret Walker
9th Annual Creative Arts Festival
Margaret Walker Centennial
JSU Student Center
Nikky Finney Keynote
Carolyn Brown booksigning and discussion
Toni Morrison Bench by the Road
Friday and Saturday, April 10-11
Oxford Conference for the Book
Margaret Walker Centennial
Oxford, Mississippi
March 25-27
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Such a Bold Leader: The Unusual Young Adult Life of Margaret Walker
Carolyn Brown
Charles W. Tisdale Library
Thursday, March 19, 4:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for teens using
poems and stories by Margaret Walker
Terrence Roberts
Eudora Welty Library
Tuesday, March 10, 4:15 p.m.
Jackson Reads kickoff event
featuring Margaret Walker’s Jubilee
Mayor Tony Yarber
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 p.m.
Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration
Margaret Walker Centennial
Natchez, Mississippi
February 26-28
Jackson/Hinds Library System
On the Shoulders of Giants:
How Walker Influenced a Whole Generation
of African-American Women, Including Fannie Lou Hamer
RaShell Smith-Spears
Fannie Lou Hamer Library
Thursday, February 26, 3:00 p.m.
Fannie Lou Hamer Institute@COFO
A Conversation with Ilyasah Shabazz
and Reena Evers-Everette
JSU Student Center
Monday, February 16, 6:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Writing workshop for children including a
dramatic reading/performance of Margaret Walker’s works
Katrina Byrd
Raymond Library—Raymond, Mississippi
Tuesday, February 10, 4:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Writing workshop for children including a
dramatic reading/performance of Margaret Walker’s works
Katrina Byrd
Annie T. Jeffers Library—Bolton, Mississippi
Monday, February 9, 4:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Eudora Welty Library
The Literary and Historical Importance
of Margaret Walker’s Life
Robert Luckett
Thursday, January 22, 6:00 pm
Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation
Margaret Walker Centennial
Featuring Paula Giddings
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
Friday, January 16, 10:00 a.m.
For My People Awards Luncheon
Honoring Paula Giddings,
Pamela D.C. Junior,
the Smith Robertson Museum,
and Dr. John Peoples
JSU Student Center Ballroom
Friday, January 16, 11:45 a.m.
Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker
Carolyn Brown–Reception and booksigning
Margaret Walker Center, Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
Friday, December 5, 5:00 p.m.
Chuck D keynote address
Saturday, April 12, 10:45 a.m.
JSU Student Center Theater
Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures
National Endowment for the Humanities/Mississippi Humanities Council
The Butterfly Mosque, G. Willow WIlson
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Discussion, 6 p.m., March 6, 2014
Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures
National Endowment for the Humanities/Mississippi Humanities Council
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, Leila Ahmed
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Discussion, 6 p.m., February 13, 2014
Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures
National Endowment for the Humanities/Mississippi Humanities Council
The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Discussion, 6 p.m., November 14, 2013
Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant
Feasibility Study for the Future of the
Margaret Walker Center
Thru October 2013
Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures
National Endowment for the Humanities/Mississippi Humanities Council
Prince Among Slaves, Terry Alford
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Open House, 4 p.m.
Discussion, 6 p.m.
September 12, 2013
Association of African American Museums
Annual Meeting, Harvey Gantt Center
Charlotte, North Carolina
August 7-10
Margaret Walker Alexander’s 98th Birthday Picnic
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Noon, July 12, 2013
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant
Digitization of the Margaret Walker Archives
Thru June 2013
Remembrance of the 50th Anniversary of the
Assassination of Medgar Evers
June 10-16, 2013
Book Reading and Signing
Frank X. Walker, Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
Minrose Gwin, Remembering Medgar Evers
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
5 p.m., June 13, 2013
50th Anniversary of the Woolworth’s Sit-in
Civil Rights Trail Marker Unveiling
Jackson, Mississippi
May 28, 2013
7th Annual Creative Arts Festival
The Legacy of Medgar Evers
Jackson State University
April 12-13, 2013
Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian Awards Luncheon
April 19, 2013
14th Annual Dr. Walter M. Hurns Memorial Banquet
Department of History and Philosophy
Jackson State University
March 21, 2013
United States of ALEC Documentary
JSU Student Center Theater
March 5, 2013
Kiese Laymon: Forum and Master Class
Jackson State University/Millsaps College
February 19-20, 2013
Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi Contest
Noon, Student Center Ballroom
Jackson State University
January 30, 2013
Martin Luther King Birthday Convocation
10 a.m., Rose McCoy Auditorium
Jackson State University
January 18, 2013
For My People Awards
11:45 a.m., Student Center Ballroom
Jackson State University
Welcome Reception for Dr. Lawrence T. Potter
Dean, College of Liberal Arts
Jackson State University
December 7, 2012
Robert Clark Symposium
The Roadmap to the Future for African Americans
Jackson State University
November 8, 2012
Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute
29th Annual Memorial Symposium
Jackson State University
October 3-4, 2012
For My People Voter Registration Drive
Aug 20-Oct 5, 2012
Assoc. for Study of African American Life & History
Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh
Sept. 26-30, 2012
U.S. Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey
September 20, 2012
The Emancipation Proclamation:
Lincoln, Grant, and Mississippi
September 11, 2012
Association of African American Museums
Annual Meeting, Baltimore
August 22-25, 2012
For My People: The Margaret Walker Song Cycle
Celebration of Margaret Walker’s 97th Birthday!
July 7, 2012
Fannie Lou Hamer Humanitarian Awards Luncheon
April 20, 2012
Unveiling of JSU Gibbs-Green Freedom Trail Marker
April 19, 2012
Immigration Forum at Koinonia Coffee House
April 17, 2012
6th Annual Creative Arts Festival
The 50th Anniversary of the Meredith Crisis
April 13-14, 2012
Dr. Carolyn W. Meyers
Presidential Inauguration
Jackson State University
March 28-30, 2012
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Annual Conference
March 21-25, 2012
Unveiling of the Frankye Adams Johnson
Black Panther Party Collection
March 23, 2012
IMLS Planning Grant
Community Meeting
February 28, 2012
Medgar Evers/Ella Baker Civil Rights Lecture Series
The Smith/Lindsey Campaign of 1962
February 23, 2012
Separate, But Equal
Film Showing and Discussion with
Writer, Director, Producer Shawn Wilson
February 21, 2012
Jackson State University
Campus Reading Community
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
February 21, 2012
2012 Tupac Conference
Jackson State University
February 16, 2012
Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi Competition
February 8, 2012
43rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Birthday Convocation
January 13, 2012
17th Annual For My People Awards Luncheon
January 13, 2012
Unveiling of William Lamson Manuscript Collection
November 22, 2011
Robert Clark Symposium
Election Day Implications and Analysis
November 9, 2011
Catfish Alley by Lynne Bryant
A Community Conversation
November 4, 2011
Ayer Hall Open House
Unveiling of Breach of Peace:
Portraits of the 1961 Freedom Riders
and Rabbi Philip Posner Manuscript Collection
September 13, 2011
Dr. Margaret Walker’s 96th Birthday
An Evening with Zac Harmon
July 7, 2011
Ford Foundation Grant
Digitization of the Margaret Walker Archives
Thru April 2011
5th Annual Creative Arts Festival:
The 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides
Featuring Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez
April 8-9, 2011
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
History Is Lunch: Dr. Robert Luckett
Margaret Walker and Black Studies
April 6, 2011
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
6th Annual Conference
March 24-26, 2011
Medgar Evers/Ella Baker Lecture Series
African-American Women In the Civil Rights Movement:
Victoria Adams, Annie Devine, Fannie Lou Hamer
March 23, 2011
National Council of Black Studies Conference
March 17-19, 2011
Governor’s Arts Awards
February 24, 2011
Mississippi Philological Association Conference
February 18-19, 2011
Second Tuesday Lecture Series
Facing the Threat of Consolidated HBCUs
February 8, 2011
Poetry Out Loud
February 2, 2011
42nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Convocation
January 18, 2011
For My People Awards Luncheon
January 14, 2011
Second Tuesday Lecture Series
Sunday Morning Segregation
November 9, 2010
Second Tuesday Lecture Series
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Discussion with Brad “Kamikaze” Franklin
October 12, 2010
Open House
Unveiling of the Levi Rowan Photograph Collection
September 8, 2010
Dr. Margaret Walker’s Birthday
July 7, 2010
Dr. Robert Smith, Sr.
Celebrating a Living Legend
“Health Care Is a Human Right”
May 29, 2010
Hamer Humanitarian Awards
April 16, 2010
Medgar Evers/Ella Baker Lecture Series
April 13, 2010
2nd Tuesday Lecture Series:
Remembering Margaret
Daughters of Margaret
April 13, 2010
4th Annual Creative Arts Festival
The Sit-in Movement and Student Activism
Fifty Years Later
April 7-8, 2010
Robert Clark Symposium and Luncheon
April 8, 2010
Dr. Haki Madhubuti
“In My Lifetime: A Poet’s Reflection on
Barack Obama, Young People and the Power of Art”
April 8, 2010
Dr. Jerry Ward
“African-American Life Histories”
April 7, 2010
4th Annual Creative Arts Festival
Book Signing and Reception
April 7, 2010
Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
5th Annual Conference
March 25-27, 2010
Black History Month
February 2010
Black History Month Friday Film Series
February 2010
Martin Luther King Convocation and
For My People Awards, featuring
Ambassador Andrew Young
February 25, 2010
Flonzie Brown Wright lecture
February 24, 2010
Piney Woods lecture: Angela Stewart
February 23, 2010
2nd Tuesday Lecture Series:
Remembering Margaret
Rev. Isaiah Madison: The Ayers Case
February 9, 2010
Poetry Out Loud
February 3, 2010
Margaret Walker Center
College of Liberal Arts
Jackson State University
Ayer Hall
1400 J.R. Lynch Street
P.O. Box 17008
Jackson, MS 39217
Phone: 601-979-3935
mwa@jsums.edu
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