Tribute to Alice Walker: Rudolph Byrd

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Channel: Emory University · 2009 · Education

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Dr.  Rudolph P. Byrd, director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute at Emory University, professor of African American studies, co-director of the Alice Walker Literary Society, and curator of Ms. Walker's exhibition at Emory, honors his friend with a poem. 

Author-activist Alice Walker visited Emory on April 22-24, 2009 in celebration the public opening of her archives and the accompanying exhibition titled "A Keeping of Records: The Art and Life of Alice Walker".

For more on Alice Walker and Emory's collections, visit http://www.emory.edu/home/academics/libraries/alice-walker.html

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