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	Margaret Walker (b.1915) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When she won a major award (the Yale Younger Poets Award), Walker was put in the public eye, but her writing always had a public dimension to it.
		In her poems, the use of "public" forms of expression--chants, litanies, and sermons--to generate structure as well as feeling should be explored and compared/contrasted with the novel.
		Much of her writing is informed by the experience of the Great Depression (she was fourteen years old when the stock market collapsed), and so racial freedom and economic freedom are intermingled in her consciousness.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/walker.html (452 words)

	Margaret Walker
		Margaret Abigail Walker was born on 7 July 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Walker's influence on the younger Black Aesthetic poets of the 1960s and 1970s can be seen in her printed talks with Nikki Giovanni.
		In Walker's ballad, "Sally Jones" running down the road "with a razor at her throat" and "Deacon's daughter lurching / Like a drunken alley goat" are merely background characters for the real drama of the poem.
	www.edwardsly.com /walkerm.html (2326 words)

	Margaret Walker, obituary
		Miss Walker, who was published under her maiden name, was best known for her poem "For My People," published in 1942, and her best-selling novel, Jubilee, based on her family's experiences during slavery and immediately after the Civil War, published in 1966.
		Born in Birmingham, Ala., Miss Walker was a resident of Jackson, Miss., and was a professor emeritus at Jackson State College, where she taught English and served as director of the Institute for the Study of History, Life and Culture of Black Peoples.
		Although Miss Walker was the daughter of a college professor, she was raised in the Jim Crow South.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/walker-margaret.html (769 words)

	Ellwood City Ledger - Margaret Walker born Oct. 26
		Margaret Ann "Maggie" Walker, the daughter of Nicole Stelter and John Walker, was born Oct. 26, 2005.
		Margaret is a granddaughter of Dale and Susan Stelter of New Galilee, and Ronald and Brenda Walker of Ellwood City.
		Her great-grandparents are Raymond Sarver of Ellport, Richard and Charlotte Walker of Monaca, the late Joanne Sarver, the late Donald and Mary Margaret Stelter, and the late Floyd and Mildred Burnd.
	www.ellwoodcityledger.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=16117112&BRD=2724&PAG=461&dept_id=563775&rfi=6 (119 words)

	Margaret Walker Biography
		Although Walker lauds the folk for their bravery, martial abilities, and quick wits, her caveats are important because they imply that the revolution lauded in "For My People" and "Delta" must yield to non-violent behavior.
		Involvement in the Writers' Project offered Walker a firsthand glimpse of the struggles of her inner-city brothers and sisters who were products of the Great Migration, a movement that had resulted in hard times and broken dreams for many southern fl immigrants.
		Walker's influence on the younger Black Aesthetic poets of the 1960s and 1970s can be seen in her printed talks with Nikki Giovanni.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/walker/bio.htm (3821 words)

	Vignette: Margaret Walker
		Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander's contributions to American letters--four volumes of poetry, a novel, a biography, and numerous critical essays--mark her as one of this country's most gifted Black intellectuals.
		Walker completed her B.A. at Northwestern University (Illinois) when she was only nineteen, and while living in Chicago, she was affiliated with several important writing groups.
		Walker completed her M.A. at the University of Iowa by writing For My People, a work for which she later became the first African American to win the Yale Younger Poets award.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/walker_margaret.htm (323 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker
		Margaret Abigail Walker was born of July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Although Margaret Walker Alexander has never received the national acclaim of other contemporary writers of her stature and contribution, she is held in high critical regard.
		The Margaret Walker Obituary by Maida Odom http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/walker-margaret.html
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/alexander_margaret_abigail_walker.html (1647 words)

	Margaret Walker, obituary
		Miss Walker, who was published under her maiden name, was best known for her poem "For My People," published in 1942, and her best-selling novel, Jubilee, based on her family's experiences during slavery and immediately after the Civil War, published in 1966.
		Born in Birmingham, Ala., Miss Walker was a resident of Jackson, Miss., and was a professor emeritus at Jackson State College, where she taught English and served as director of the Institute for the Study of History, Life and Culture of Black Peoples.
		Although Miss Walker was the daughter of a college professor, she was raised in the Jim Crow South.
	writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/walker-margaret.html (769 words)

	MWP: Margaret Walker Alexander (1915-1998)
		Margaret Walker Alexander, best known for her neo-slave narrative Jubilee and the poem “For My People,” was born Maragret Abigail Walker on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Walker’s awards are the Rosenwald Fellowship (1944), a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1972), and the WHite House Award for Distinguished Senior Citizen.
		The Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center at Jackson State University is a national resource for collecting, preserving, and interpreting 20th Century African American History though living memories, archival records, material culture, and the built environment.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/alexander_margaret_walker (822 words)

	California Newsreel - FOR MY PEOPLE: THE LIFE AND WRITING OF MARGARET WALKER
		Margaret Walker has been described by scholar Jerry Ward as "a national treasure" and by Nikki Giovanni as the "most famous person nobody knows." Her signature poem, For My People, written when she was 22, set a tone and a level of commitment which African American literature has been responding to ever since.
		For My People combines conversations with Margaret Walker, commentary from leading scholars and readings from her poetry to make a powerful argument for the centrality of her work to 20th century American literature.
		Margaret returned to the South, teaching at Jackson State for forty years and establishing there one of the first Black Studies center in the nation.
	www.newsreel.org /nav/title.asp?tc=CN0035 (525 words)

	KU prof seeks contacts for biography of 'Jubilee' author Margaret Walker
		Walker (1915-1998) began her writing career as a poet in the late 1930s, but she was not cast into the limelight until 1966, when she published her historical novel, "Jubilee," says Graham, who is working on Walker's biography.
		Walker's novel follows two or three generations of a family in slavery through Reconstruction and chronicles the choices they made when freedom came.
		Anyone who may have known Walker from her lecture tours may contact Graham at the KU Department of English, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045; phone (785) 864-2557; or e-mail megraham@ku.edu.
	www.news.ku.edu /2003/03N/AprilNews/April2/walker.html (890 words)

	Walker_Margaret_ms
		Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Walker thanked her mother for teaching her to read, while crediting her father with encouraging her to write.
		Walker received the Rosenwald Fellowship for Creative Writing in 1944, a Ford Fellowship at Yale University in 1954, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Iowa in 1965.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/walker_margaret_ms.htm (898 words)

	Walker, Margaret Criticism and Essays
		Walker's poetry is noted for its mastery of poetic forms and its use of the folklore and speech patterns of the fl experience.
		In general, Walker has retained her position as an important voice in African-American literature: a transitional figure between the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and the social protest writers of the 1960s.
		After Walker's death, a significant number of critics began to re-evaluate her work for its artistic merit, its important place in the spectrum of African-American literature, and its evidence of a woman's creative perseverance.
	www.enotes.com /twentieth-century-criticism/walker-margaret (1028 words)

	Margaret Walker Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Margaret Abigail Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama, to Sigismund and Marion (Dozier) Walker.
		Walker received her A.B. from Northwestern University (1935) and an M.A. (1940) and Ph.D. (1965) from the University of Iowa.
		Walker continued to reside in Jackson, Mississippi, where she said she must stay and "write for the rest of [her] life, no matter how short or long it is." In addition to working on the Jubilee she is also writing an autobiography.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/margaret-walker (503 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureMargaret Walker - Author Page
		When Walker left Chicago for graduate school at the University of Iowa in 1939, she was well on her way to becoming a major American poet.
		Walker also began work on a historical novel based on her great grandmother, Elvira Ware Dozier, a novel she would not finish until she returned to Iowa in the 1960s to complete her doctoral studies.
		Walker described herself as a “poet and dreamer who tried to make her life a poem,” a statement suggestive of the many influences and traditions found in her writing, the most notable of which is oratory.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/modern/walker_ma.html (623 words)

	[minstrels] I Want To Write -- Margaret Walker
		Walker's maternal grandmother, Elvira Ware Dozier, lived with the family, and the stories she told Margaret of life during slavery in Georgia inspired Walker's novel, Jubilee (1966), which imagines the Civil War and emancipation from the point of view of slaves on the cusp of freedom.
		When Walker was sixteen, Langston Hughes, who was reading at New Orleans University, read some of her poetry and encouraged her to go north for her education.
		Walker initiated a Black Studies program at Jackson State in the early 1970s (a research center for African-American studies at Jackson State is currently named for Walker), and has published a number of works of poetry, as well as a biography of Richard Wright.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/822.html (441 words)

	Dr. Margaret Walker
		Margaret Urban Walker is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University.
		Margaret Walker was recently the guest of the Research Concentration in Applied Ethics of Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, where she participated in a colloquium on “New Directions in Applying Ethics” with members of the program, and other scholars and practitioners.
		Walker uses critical techniques feminist scholars have pioneered in the past twenty years, along with her own model of morality as practices of responsibility that coordinate understandings of identities, relationships, and values, to reveal the impact of gender and other bias in representations of morality in philosophical ethics.
	www.fordham.edu /philosophy/faculty/walker.htm (748 words)

	Conversations with Margaret Walker
		Margaret Walker (19151998) began her writing career as a poet in the late 1930s.
		This collection amply shows that Margaret Walker was a writer who considered her work to be deeply influenced by the culture around her.
		Maryemma Graham, a professor of English at the University of Kansas, is the co-editor of Conversations with Ralph Ellison (University Press of Mississippi).
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2002/margaret_walker.html (374 words)

	Margaret Walker, Mississippi writer
		Margaret Walker was born in the summer of 1915 in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Walker emphases in her novel what the fl people went through and how they struggled to get where they are today.
		Margaret Walker, poet and novelist (obituary, December 1998) by Maida Odom, Inquirer
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Walker.html (1008 words)

	MediaRights: Film: For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker
		Margaret Walker has been described by scholar Jerry Ward as "a national treasure" and by Nikki Giovanni as the "most famous person nobody knows." Her signature poem, For My People, written when she was 22, set a tone and a level of commitment which African American literature has been responding to ever since.
		For My People combines conversations with Margaret Walker, commentary from leading scholars and readings from her poetry to make a powerful argument for the centrality of her work to 20th century American literature.
		Margaret returned to the South, teaching at Jackson State for forty years and establishing there one of the first Black Studies center in the nation.
	www.mediarights.org /film/for_my_people_the_life_and_writing_of_margaret_walker (462 words)

	Margaret Walker Alexander
		Margaret Walker Alexander was the living continuum of the great revolutionary democratic arts culture that has sustained and inspired the Afro-American people since the middle passage.
		Margaret took the highest of the oral tradition: the oracular divinity of high religious speech.
		Margaret Walker remains part of our deepest and most glorious voice, dimensioned by history and musicked by vision.
	www.thenation.com /doc/19990104/baraka (929 words)

	Jubilee, by Margaret Walker Alexander
		Vyry was the plantation cook, a house servant, not a field hand, and Walker examines not only the details of every rung of the social ladder among whites, from poor white to storekeeper to planter, but also the feelings among the slaves concerning both occupation and skin color.
		In an interview in 1997, Walker acknowledged that Jubilee is often thought of as a fl Gone with the Wind, but while Mitchell wrote the story from the top down, Walker wrote it from the bottom up, from the point of view of the slave.
		Margaret Walker died in 1998 at the age of 83.
	www.wual.ua.edu /bookreviews/jubilee.html (922 words)

	Amazon.ca: Conversations with Margaret Walker: Books: Margaret Walker,Maryemma Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Walker, best known for her novel Jubilee, was a literary figure who bridged the Harlem Renaissance and fl-nationalist generations.
		The interviews range from 1972 to 1996 and highlight Walker's deep sense of humanity, a Christian humanity that put her at odds, on occasion, with the brash young, race-conscious writers who followed her.
		Walker expounds on the influences on her writing, her personal trials, her sense of the changes in attitude toward race and sex during her lifetime, and the function of writers in articulating social issues.
	www.amazon.ca /Conversations-Margaret-Walker/dp/1578065127 (444 words)

	E293- Margaret Walker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Margaret Walker's tombstone is a relatively modern replacement and badly in error.
		In fact, Walker lived in the 19th century and was a laundress with Company C of the 12th United States Infantry Regiment.
		Margaret Walker is the only woman in the Angel Island graves to be listed with her own rank instead of being listed as a man's dependent.
	www.eclectichistorian.net /AI_Cemetery/E293.html (339 words)

	Distinguished Alumni Winner: Margaret Walker Alexander
		Walker's poetic talent emerged while she was attending schools in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
		Walker enrolled as a junior at her father's alma mater, Northwestern University, when she was just 17.
		Walker continues to teach and write in Jackson, the town she paid homage to in Poems for Farish Street (1985).
	www.iowalum.com /daa/alexander.html (529 words)

	"To a place blessed" : for Margaret Walker - Obituary African American Review - Find Articles
		On November 30, 1998, Margaret Walker Alexander, at the age of 83, died in Chicago.
		Margaret Walker is the senior-ranking writer of the African American South and probably its greatest poet.
		From North Carolina Central at the close of the sixties, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April 1998, Margaret Walker kept her eye on the sparrow.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_1_33/ai_54421507 (905 words)

	Pass Christian Books - Margaret Walker
		Margaret Walker was equally skilled as a poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, and social commentator.
		At twenty-one, Walker was the youngest member of the South Side Writer's Group, a regular meeting of African American writers in Illinois, possibly the first such gathering of African American writers in America.
		In her youth, Walker was fascinated by the stories her grandmother told of Walker's great-grandmother and her life in pre-Civil War Georgia on a large and prosperous plantation.
	passchristianbooks.com /walker.htm (746 words)

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