Literary Giants: Faulkner & Walker
Before earning her graduate degrees at the University of Iowa, Margaret Walker Alexander attended this university in Illinois, which was also her father's alma mater.
What is Northwestern University?
This is the direction most African Americans traveled when they left the South during the Great Migration.
What is north?
The instrument that Joe Gardner plays and teaches to his students.
What is a piano?
This textile art form involves stitching together fabric scraps to create intricate patterns that often tell a family’s history.
What is quilting?
This famous soprano was born in Laurel, Mississippi, and became one of the first African American stars at the Metropolitan Opera.
Who is Leontyne Price?
Faulkner was known for a complex writing style where he writes exactly what a character is thinking, even if it is disorganized; this is called "________ of Consciousness."
What is stream?
Many people left the South to find better-paying jobs in these large buildings that manufactured cars, steel, and tools.
What are factories?
In "The Great Before," it's the name (or number) of the cynical soul who doesn't want to go to Earth.
What is 22?
This literary art form uses rhythm, meter, and vivid imagery, famously used by Margaret Walker to honor her heritage.
What is poetry?
She was a world-renowned poet and author who taught at Jackson State for 30 years and wrote the famous novel Jubilee.
Who is Margaret Walker?
Walker was married to this man, a soldier and civil servant, for over 30 years.
Who is Firnist James Alexander?
This famous "Windy City" in Illinois was a major destination for people leaving Mississippi by train.
What is Chicago?
To get back to Earth, Joe and 22 have to find this—a special interest or "calling" that makes life worth living.
What is The Spark?
This art form relies on the manipulation of light and the deliberate "frame" of a subject to document reality, much like the work of Eudora Welty.
What is photography?
This artist used her skills in photography and dance to document the Civil Rights Movement and co-founded the Free Southern Theater.
Who is Doris Derby?
This is the fictional, reimagined county in Mississippi where William Faulkner set most of his famous novels and short stories.
What is Yoknapatawpha County?
This tiny, hungry insect destroyed cotton crops across the South, making it hard for farming families to earn a living.
What is the Boll Weevil?
To get their "Earth Pass," every soul needs to find their "Spark." In order to find their spark, this giant building allows souls to try out different hobbies.
What is the Hall of Everything?
This medium involves assembling various found materials—like newspaper clippings, magazine photos, and textures—onto a single surface to create a new, layered image.
What is a collage?
Instead of paint, this Jackson-based artist used vibrant fabrics and thread to create powerful "narrative quilts" about history.
Who is Gwendolyn Magee?
Before Jubilee, she became the first African American to win the Yale Younger Poets Award for this famous collection.
What is For My People?
This famous newspaper, based in Chicago, was often smuggled into the South to tell people about jobs and housing up North.
What is the Chicago Defender?
The "accountants" or counselors who look after the Great Before share this name. It must be confusing getting their attention all the time.
What is Jerry?
Often DIY and self-published, these small booklets are a powerful way for creators to share subcultures, activism, or personal narratives in a portable format.
What is a zine?
This illustrator and Navy veteran spent the "Freedom Summer" of 1964 in Ruleville, MS, sketching the people and events he saw.
Who is Tracy Sugarman?