2015 Events
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
Inquiring Minds Want to Know:
How Much of JUBILEE was Actually True?
Quisenberry Library—Clinton, Mississippi
Thursday, June 18, 6:00 p.m.
Margaret Walker Centennial
Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall
Tuesday, July 7, 11:30 a.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, 10:00 a.m.
Margaret Walker Centennial
Gala Celebration
For My People: A New Musical Work
JSU Student Center Ballrooms
Friday, July 10, 5:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Storytelling workshop for children & adults
using works by Margaret Walker
Janice Neal-Vincent
Willie Morris Library
Tuesday, July 14, 10:00 a.m.
Mississippi Book Festival
Margaret Walker Centennial
Friday and Saturday, August 20-22
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.
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, 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, 6:00 p.m.
Jackson/Hinds Library System
Margaret Walker Alexander Library
The Thoughts I Will Keep from the Margaret Walker Centennial Celebration
Robert Luckett
Sunday, November 15, 2015, 6:00 p.m.