Z 1241.000 Alexander (Margaret Walker) Manuscript

Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander was born July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. She has taught at Livingstone College (North Carolina), West Virginia State College, and Jackson State University from 1949 to date. Dr. Alexander is the Director of the Institute for the Study of History, Life and Culture of Black Studies, Jackson State University. She has received the Yale Award for Younger Poets, 1942; Rosenwald Fellow for Creative Writing, 1944; Ford Fellow, Yale, 1954; and Houghton-Mifflin Literary Fellow, 1966. Dr. Alexander has authored the following works: For My People, 1942; Jubilee, 1966; Prophets for a New Day, 1970.

This collection consists of the marked galley proof of Jubilee, which was published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston in 1966.