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In this image take from video on Monday, July 8, 2019, the new Mississippi Writers Trail marker honoring novelist and poet Margaret Walker Alexander, stands in the foreground of Ayers Hall on the Jackson State University campus, after being unveiled in Jackson, Miss. Walker was an English professor from 1949 to 1979. In 1942, she became the first African American woman to win the Yale Prize for her poetry collection, "For My People." One of her best known novels, "Jubilee," was published in 1966 and tells of a biracial woman born into slavery in the American South. (WLBT via AP)

In this image take from video on Monday, July 8, 2019, the new Mississippi Writers Trail marker honoring novelist and poet Margaret Walker Alexander, stands in the foreground of Ayers Hall on the Jackson State University campus, after being unveiled in Jackson, Miss. Walker was an English professor from 1949 to 1979. In 1942, she became the first African American woman to win the Yale Prize for her poetry collection, "For My People." One of her best known novels, "Jubilee," was published in 1966 and tells of a biracial woman born into slavery in the American South. (WLBT via AP)

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