Newspaper Clippings

The Margaret Walker Center possesses a collection of newspaper clippings on virtually all themes of African-American life and culture from 1999 to 2013.  Articles are most notably from The Jackson Advocate and the Clarion-Ledger.

There are more than 1,000 clippings in the Margaret Walker Center’s collection, which are organized chronologically and contain subject and source information.

Topics include

• Jackson State University history and events
• Black churches
• Farish Street Project
• Black leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Jessie Mosley, James Meredith, Fannie Lou Hamer, Melvene Coney, and Colin Powell
• Civil rights movement
• State and local government
• NAACP
• Ayers case
• Black history, racial reconciliation, poverty, black families, and black businesses