Projects and Programs

Celebration of Margaret Walker's 97th Birthday!

July 7, 2012

Institute of Museum and Library Services Grant:
Feasibility Study for the Future of the
Margaret Walker Center

Thru October 2013

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant:
Digitization of the
Margaret Walker Archives

Thru June 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
The Future of the SWAC:
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
Select Poetry Readings

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