enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Margaret Walker Center - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Walker_Center

    Margaret Walker Center Logo. The Margaret Walker Center (MWC), located in the heritage listed Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, is a public archive and museum dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of the culture and history of the African American community. [1]

  3. C. T. Walker Traditional Magnet School - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._T._Walker_Traditional...

    During its first year as a magnet school, C.T. Walker housed 400 K-5 students admitted on the basis of a lottery that was conducted by community leaders and school officials. [2] Beginning with the 1981 school year, the sixth grade was added to the school structure, followed by the seventh grade in 1982, and the eighth grade in 1983.

  4. Margaret Walker - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Walker

    Walker became a literature professor at what is today Jackson State University, an historically black college, where she taught from 1949 to 1979.In 1968, Walker founded the Institute for the Study of History, Life, and Culture of Black People (now the Margaret Walker Center) [7] and her personal papers are now stored there. [8]

  5. Walker Center - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Center

    The Walker Center from 200 South. The building was opened on December 9, 1912, taking a little over a year to be built. It was originally constructed as the headquarters for Walker Bank, founded in Salt Lake City in 1859 by the Walker brothers: Samuel Sharp, Joseph Robinson, David Frederick, and Matthew Walker, Jr.

  6. Walker-Hackensack-Akeley School District - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker-Hackensack-Akeley...

    Walker-Hackensack-Akeley School District is a public school district in Cass County, Minnesota, United States, based in Walker, Minnesota. The Walker-Hackensack-Akeley district was formed by the 1990 consolidation of the Walker and Akeley districts. [2] Under Minnesota law it was a consolidation. [3]

  7. Sylvia Walker - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Walker

    Sylvia Walker (July 18, 1937 - February 6, 2004) was a disability rights activist and professor with the School of Education at Howard University. Born in New York City as a blind African American woman, Walker experienced ableism in her early education [ 1 ] and worked to combat this discrimination in her professional career.

  8. Elizabeth Armstrong (curator) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Armstrong_(curator)

    Elizabeth Armstrong is an American curator of contemporary and modern art. [1] [2] [3] Beginning in the late 1980s, she served in chief curatorial and leadership roles at the Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA), Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Palm Springs Art Museum.

  9. Martin Friedman (museum director) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Friedman_(museum...

    After graduation, Friedman spent the beginnings of his career teaching art in high schools and colleges around Los Angeles. His transition into curating began after winning a fellowship to study African art in Belgium. Upon finishing the fellowship, Friedman was hired on as a curator at the Walker Art Center in 1958. [2]