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2024

54th Annual Commemoration of the Gibbs-Green Tragedy at Jackson State
Jackson State University
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

 

Eudora Welty House and Garden
#WeltyatHome Book Club Discussion
Featuring Margaret Walker’s Jubilee
Led by Dr. Robert Luckett, MWC Director
Noon, Friday, August 11, 18, and 25

 

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

Virtual Jubilee Picnic
Margaret Walker Cooking Demonstration
Maple Nut Cake Recipe
6 p.m., Tuesday, July 7, 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

 

“Tragedy and Triumph: The Lives of the Gibbs-Green Survivors”
Reception and Exhibition Grand Opening
4 p.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, February 27, 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

 

Let Us March On
Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

Civil Rights Photography Exhibition
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
Sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council
Through November 1, 2019

Student Roundtable featuring
Juan McFarland, MA candidate, History, JSU
April Blevins, PhD candidate, Public History, MTSU
William Kelly, recent graduate, Media Journalism, JSU
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
6 p.m., Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Panel Discussion featuring
Monique Davis, Director, CAPE, Mississippi Museum of Art
Jimmy Mumford, Chair, Department of Art, JSU
Mark Geil, Associate Professor, Department of Art, JSU
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
6 p.m., Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Gallery Talk
Eric Etheridge, Photographer
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
6 p.m., Tuesday, October 29, 2019

 

Contested Congressional Election of Annie Devine,
Fannie Lou Hamer, and Victoria Gray

March on Washington Film Festival
Jack Morton Auditorium, George Washington University
7 p.m., Wednesday, September 25, 2019

 

River Road on the Mississippi
Roy Lewis Documentary Photography Exhibition
Ayer Hall Gallery, Margaret Walker Center
Through September 25, 2019

 

New Symphony of Time
Grand Opening and Discussion
Art and Coffee with MWC Director Robert Luckett
Mississippi Museum of Art
10 a.m., Saturday, September 7, 2019

 

Association of African American Museums
Annual Meeting
Roots of Revolution: Reaching Back | Pushing Forward
Jackson, Mississippi
August 7-10, 2019

 

Margaret Walker Mississippi Writers Trail
Marker Unveiling
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
11:30 a.m., Monday, July 8, 2019

Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Immediately following unveiling

“Everywhere with Roy Lewis”
Photography Exhibition
A Conversation: Mark Geil and Redell Hearn
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
6:00 p.m., June 6, 2019

 

49th Gibbs-Green Commemoration
Jackson State University
Gibbs-Green Memorial Plaza
10:00 a.m., Wednesday, May 15, 2019

 

“Bolden”
Film screening
JSU Student Center Theater
6:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 17, 2019

 

“Everywhere with Roy Lewis”
Photography Exhibition
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
4:00 p.m., Friday, April 12, 2019

 

“I Too Am Mississippi”: A Storytelling Project
Breaking the Silence on Trans Harrassment &
Discrimination through Narrative Change
Conversation, Film Screening, and Exhibit
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
10:00 a.m., Friday, April 12, 2019

 

13th Annual Creative Arts Festival
Featuring Jess Holland, Black Panther novelist
Kevin Powell, author and activist
Roy Lewis, photographer
Jackson State University
Friday and Saturday, April 12 and 13, 2019

 

From Historic Du Bois & Washington to Future Analytics & Informatics
A Continued Canon Debate in the Digital Age
Discussion with Dr. Joseph Stevenson
F.D. Hall Music Department Recital Hall
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 27, 2019

 

“The Color of Compromise: The Truth about
the American Church’s Complicity in Racism”

Jemar Tisby, book-signing and discussion
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
4 p.m., Thursday, February 21, 2019

 

Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi
Student Center Theater
Jackson State University
12 p.m., Wednesday, February 6, 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

 

“Baltimore” by Kirsten Greenridge
Sunflower County Freedom Project
COFO Civil Rights Education Center
2 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2019

 

“Hell in High Water”
New Stage Theatre
6:15 p.m., Pre-program panel and Discussion
7:30 p.m. Performance
Thursday, January 31, 2019

 

Civil Rights, Civil Wrongs
The Exhibition by michael stevenson
Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
Fall 2018

 

For My People Awards Reception
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
6 p.m., Thursday, January 17, 2019

 

 

For My People Awards (Tickets $20)
Student Center Ballroom A
Jackson State University
11:30 a.m., Friday, January 18, 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

 
 
 

GOTV Discussion with Erika Alexander
Presented by JSU G.I.R.L.
Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
4:30 p.m., Monday, November 26, 2018

 

Kiese Laymon
“Heavy: An American Memoir”
Book talk and signing
Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
3 p.m., Wednesday, October 17, 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

 

Davis Democracy Fellowship
Voter Registration liason
(JSU. MIllsaps, USM students only)
Applications Due
Friday, April 20, 2018

 

12th Annual Creative Arts Festival
Frank X Walker, Co-Founder, Affrilachian Poets
The Margaret Walker Center at 50
JSU Student Center
April 13 and 14, 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.

 

Farish Quilt
A sculpture by Linda S. Trobaugh
Interpretive Marker Dedication
Farish Street Park
Jackson, Mississippi
March 22, 2018, 4:30 p.m.

 

Angie Thomas guest lecture
“Finding Your Activism:
Turning the Political into the Personal”
JSU Student Center Theater
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 10:00 a.m.

Reception and Booksigning
The Hate U Give
COFO Civil Rights Education Center
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 11:30 a.m.

Scott Ford House, Inc.
Gospel Explosion
Come tape your midwife story, listen to Gospel music
and bid on historic items
Central United Methodist Church Family Life Center
Saturday, February 24, 2018, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

 

Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Sunflower County Freedom Project
A student play by Lynn Nottage
COFO Civil Rights Education Center
Saturday, February 24, 2018, 2:00 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

 

75th Anniversary of For My People
Symposium featuring Airea Matthews,
2016 Yale Younger Poets Prize Winner
JSU Student Center Theater
Friday, December 1, 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.

 

Tackling the Issues: The Entanglement of
Islamophobia and Anti-Black Violence
Sponsored by the International Museum of Muslim Cultures
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Thursday, April 20, 2017, 6:00 p.m.

 

11th Annual Creative Arts Festival
Cornelius Eady, founder and editor
Callaloo and Cave Canem:  Publishing the African Diaspora
JSU Student Center
April 12 and 13, 2017

 

47th Gibbs Green Commemoration and Wreath-laying
Gibbs Green Memorial Plaza
Monday, April 10, 2017, 12:00 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

9:00 p.m. Panel Discussion
Yohance Myles, JSU theater professor and cast member
Dr. Doris Derby, civil rights activist
The Honorable John Horhn, State Senator

Levi Rowan Photograph Collection
Traveling Exhibition
Columbus-Lowndes Public Library
January 30-March 2, 2017

 

Poetry Out Loud
JSU Student Center Theater
Wednesday, February 1, 2017, Noon

 

49th Martin Luther King Birthday Convocation
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
Friday, January 13, 2017, 10:00 a.m.

 

22nd Annual For My People Awards Luncheon
Honoring Cheryl Brown Henderson, Rod Paige,
Michael A. Middleton, and John Perkins
JSU Student Center Ballroom
Friday, January 13, 2017, 11:30 a.m.

 

Julius Thompson Manuscript Collection
Reception and Unveiling
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Friday, December 9, 2016, 4:00 p.m.

 

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.

 

“Get in the Way: The Journey of John Lewis”
Documentary screening and discussion
Co-sponsored by Common Cause Mississippi
JSU Student Center Theater
Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

 

Ajamu Baraka
Human Rights Activist &
Green Party Candidate for Vice-President
Student Seminar
JSU College of Liberal Arts, room 166/266
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 10:00 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.

 

Pulitzer Prize at 100
Celebrating the Legacy of the Black Press
LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Award-winning author, “Jam on the Vine”
Sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council
JSU Student Center Theater
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

Kathy Times
Reception and Keynote Address
JSU Downtown Campus
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

Conference on the Liberal Arts
[Re]Defining Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century
College of Liberal Arts, Jackson State University
October 6-8, 2016

 

West Jackson Rotary Club
Margaret Walker lecture
Dr. Robert Luckett, MWC Director
JSU Student Center, room 3241
Noon, Tuesday, October 4, 2016

 

50th Anniversary of Jubilee
Symposium featuring Margaret Walker scholars
Maryemma Graham, Trudier Harris, Carolyn Brown,
Alferdteen Harrison, RaShell Spears
JSU Student Center Theater
Friday, September 16, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

Reception and Special Remarks
Kiese Laymon
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Friday, September 16, 2016, 4:00 p.m.

“My Life in China”
Documentary Screening and Discussion
with Kenneth Eng, director,
and Ehren Parks, writer
College of Liberal Arts, room 166/266
Jackson State University
Tuesday, August 30, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

 

Fall Open House and Unveiling
“Civil Rights Civil Wrongs”
michael stevenson Exhibition
Ayer Hall and Hamer @ COFO
Jackson State University
Friday, August 26, 2016, 4 to 6 p.m.

 

Jubilee Picnic
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Thursday, July 7, 2016, 11:30 a.m.

 

Holtzclaw Lecture and reception
William Andrews
Sponsored by Hinds Community College-Utica Campus
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Thursday, April 28, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

Press Release

10th Annual Creative Arts Festival
Ordinary Heroes ~ The (Un)Examined Life
Featuring activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, 2016

An Ordinary Hero
Documentary Screening and Discussion
JSU College of Liberal Arts, room 166/266
Friday, April 15, 2016, 2 p.m.

Reception for An Ordinary Hero Exhibition
JSU Ayer Hall
Friday, April 15, 2016, 4-6 p.m.

46th Gibbs Green Memorial and Candlelight Vigil
Gibbs Green Memorial Plaza
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:00 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.

 

Yazoo Revisited documentary screening
JSU Student Center Theater
Thursday, February 18, 2016, 11:30 a.m.

 

Mississippi Governor’s Arts Awards
Honoring Tonea Stewart
Duling Hall, Jackson
Thursday, February 11, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

 

Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi
National Recitation Contest
JSU Student Center Theater
Wednesday, February 3, 2016, Noon

 

Dream On documentary
JSU Student Center Theater
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

 

48th Martin Luther King Birthday Convocation
Featuring reporter and author Juan Williams
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium
Friday, January 15, 2016, 10:00 a.m.

 

For My People Awards Luncheon
JSU Student Center Ballroom
Friday, January 15, 2016, 11:30 a.m.

 

Joe T. Patterson and the White South’s Dilemma
Robert Luckett
Brown Bag Reading and Discussion
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Thursday, December 10, 2015, Noon

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.

 

Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Voice
Alysia Burton Steele
Reading and Discussion
COFO Center, Jackson State University
Thursday, November 12, 2015, 6:00 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.

 

Milestones in Democracy
30 Years of Representative Government in Jackson
Jackson Convention Center Theater
Thursday, October 29, 2015, 5:30 p.m.

 

Nikki Skies
The Town Dance
Book Reading and Signing
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Thursday, October 15, 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.

 

A Class Apart
Documentary Screening
Hispanic Heritage Month
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Monday, September 28, 2015, 3:00 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.

 

Aron & Karen Primack African Art Collection
Unveiling and Open House
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 4:00-6:00 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

 

Sterling Plumpp and Patrick Oliver
Book Reading and Signing
Ayer Hall
Jackson State University
Thursday, August 20, 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.

 

The Black Arts Movement, Black Power
and the Struggle for Civil Rights in America

Dr. Doris Derby
Opening Keynote: Nikki Giovanni, 6 p.m.
Reception immediately following
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
Thursday, April 23-Summer

 

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.

 

Mississippi Jubilee: From Slavery to Freedom
Symposium on the 150th Anniversary of Emancipation
Mississippi Humanities Council
“Margaret Walker’s Jubilee” Panel Discussion
Friday, April 17

 

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

 

“Jackson Reads” Jubilee
Community Discussion with Angela Stewart
Lemuria Bookstore Activity Center
6 p.m. Tuesday, March 31

 

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.

 

Sister Act – Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty
Carolyn Brown
Eudora Welty House and Garden
Education and Visitors Center
Wednesday, March 18, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

 

The Noose and Pyre
Lynching and Racial Violence as Social Control

Dr. Deborah H. Barnes
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Tuesday, March 17, 7:00 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.

 

“Yazoo Revisited”
Documentary film screening with
filmmaker David Rae Morris
JSU Student Center Theater
Wednesday, February 25, 11:30 a.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.

 

Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi Contest
Student Center Theater, Jackson State University
Wednesday, February 4, Noon

 

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.

Photography Exhibition
Women: Agents of Change in the American Civil Rights Movement
Johnson Hall Art Gallery
April 11 to August 1

 

8th Annual Creative Arts Festival: The Legacy of Freedom Summer
Student Center, Jackson State University
April 11-12, 2014

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

 

Poetry Out Loud
Central Region of Mississippi Contest
Student Center Ballroom A, Jackson State University
Noon, February 5, 2014

 

45th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Birthday Convocation
Rose E. McCoy Auditorium, Jackson State University
10 a.m., January 17, 2014

 

19th Annual For My People Awards Luncheon
Student Center Ballroom A, Jackson State University
11:45 a.m., January 17, 2014

 

Building a Special Relationship
Jewish Activists & the Scottsboro Case
Dr. Stuart Rockoff
Executive Director, Mississippi Humanities Council
Johnson Hall Art Gallery, Jackson State University
6 p.m., December 5, 2013

 

The Scottsboro Community: Facing the Past
Lecia Brooks and Jed Oppenheim, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
Johnson Hall Art Gallery, Jackson State University
6 p.m., November 19, 2013

 

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

 

Unveiling of the Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs
Johnson Hall Art Gallery, Jackson State University
6 p.m., November 11, 2013

 

Outside the Protective Circle of Humanity
Scottsboro Boys: The Fred Hiroshige Photographs
Johnson Hall Art Gallery, Jackson State University
November 11-December 13, 2013

 

Muslim Journeys: Bridging Cultures
National Endowment for the Humanities/Mississippi Humanities Council
Acts of Faith, Eboo Patel
Ayer Hall, Jackson State University
Discussion, 6 p.m., October 10, 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

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