Margaret Walker

CTL-E-0355 · Person · unspecified

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Birmingham-born poet who built her career in 1930s Chicago and then returned South, joining Jackson State College's faculty in 1949 - a named Chicago-to-South return.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-036; source research type(s): Person. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Margaret Walker biography (Appendix H) Jackson State University dev.jsums.edu (Margaret Walker Center)
Margaret Walker Center centennial JSU Newsroom jsumsnews.com

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