The Greatest Art is The Greatest Propaganda: the Fascinating and Tragic Life of Margaret Walker Alexander

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• 作者：Jelani M. Favors
• 刊名：The Review of Black Political Economy
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：43
• 期：2
• 页码：111-127
• 全文大小：352 KB
• 刊物主题：Economic Policy; Sociology, general; Political Science, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1936-4814
• 卷排序：43

文摘

In 1949, the famed author and poet Margaret Walker took a position of employment with the English Department at Jackson State University, an appointment that she would hold for the next 30 years. Her tenure at Jackson State coincided with the rise of the Modern Civil Rights Movement and her diary entries during these turbulent years illustrate a woman in flux and tragically silenced as the black freedom struggle unfolded. This article discusses Walker’s dilemma as it related to feeling voiceless in Mississippi’s closed society but it also examines the ways in which Walker molded her students and in doing so, made contributions to their politicization and development as change agents. Walker’s career would become a source of inspiration for later artists and writers of the Black Power and Black Arts Movements.KeywordsMargaret Walker AlexanderMississippiJackson State UniversityStudent activismHistorically black colleges and universitiesBlack Arts MovementBlack Power MovementCivil Rights Movement