Reminiscences of Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Teacher, writer

Scope and Contents

Growing 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

Subjects

• African American authors--Interviews.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• African American teachers--Interviews.
• American literature--African American authors.
• Authors--Interviews.
• Greenlee, Marcia M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Teachers--Interviews.
• United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998.
• Women authors--Interviews.

Access Conditions

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