Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander : oral history, 1977.Biographical NoteTeacher, writer
Scope and ContentsGrowing up in Alabama; parents' culture and education; genealogy; religious background; marriage; educational and racial experiences at Northwestern University, University of Iowa, writings; JUBILEE; English teacher, Jackson State University from 1949; Director, Institute for the Study of History, Life and Culture of Black People from 1968; impressions of W.E.B. DuBois; friendship with Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Paul Engle, Medgar Evers, Edward Hungerford and others
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by narrator
| |