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In honor of the Margaret Walker Center celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, Angela Stewart, archivist for the Margaret Walker Center, discusses the inaugural event, which was held in November 1973. In this presentation, the Stewart shares highlights from the event, all of which have been documented in the personal papers of Margaret Walker and the institute’s administrative records. This presentation serves to remind us of Walker’s motivation for organizing the event: “A need to conquer the fear of becoming invisible and ultimately forgotten drove her. In Walker’s thinking, one way to that was to prove that remarkable things could happen in Mississippi that might not be possible anywhere else” (from Maryemma Graham’s THE HOUSE WHERE MY SOUL LIVES, p. 405). For more information about the festival, please visit https://www.jsums.edu/philliswheatley/