Maragret Walker: External Links and Additional Resources

• The Margaret Walker Pages from the Internet Poetry Archive

• A video, "For my People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker," was published by California Newsreel (San Francisco) in 1998. Running time: approximately 27 minutes. The web site at Wilfrid Laurier University describes the film as follows: "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. At the heart of her poetry are the rhythms of African and African American speech and music--gospel, spiritual, ballads and folktales. In contrast to most contemporary poets, she did not aspire to a 'personal' poetry but 'to write the song of my people, to frame their dreams into words, their souls into notes.'"

Wilfrid Laurier University web site: http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwav/WLUCollection/F/v1242.htm

The North Carolina State University at Marion also has a web site for this film: http://lib.ncsu.edu/marion/AJR-7303

• The Margaret Alexander Page from the Mississippi Writers Pages (University of Mississippi English Department.)

• The Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center from Jackson State University.

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted the North Carolina Literary Festival from April 3-5, 1998.  Recordings of readings of Walker's poetry and a panel discussion are available at http://metalab.unc.edu/ipa/walker

• At the end of this section, you will find Margaret Walker's contribution ("Yalluh Hammuh") to the Federal Writers' Project. This document was drawn from the Library of Congress web site which offers manuscripts from this project. You can check additional sources by following these simple directions:
  • The LOC web site is http://www.loc.gov
  • After accessing the LOC home page, click "American Memory."
  • After accessing American Memory, click "enter" and the American Memory Historical Collections page will appear on the screen.
  • After accessing this page, click "search." The All American Memory Collections page will appear on the screen.
  • Search this page and click American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1940. The Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project page will appear on the screen. Click "select a state."
  • The WPA Life Histories page with a map of the United States will appear on the screen. Click the "state" that you wish to search, and when the Life Histories page for that state appears, click, for example, "List all Illinois titles." (Walker's manuscript is Illinois, #39.)

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