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  Dr. Sally Palmer Thomason & Jean Carter Fisher

  Sally Palmer Thomason Dr. and Jean Carter Fisher

  Dr. Sally Palmer Thomason and Jean Carter Fisher discuss their book The Power of One, about Sister Anne Brooks, a Catholic nun and doctor of osteopathy, who for 34 years served Tutwiler in the Mississippi Delta, one of the nation’s most impoverished towns. Starting with only two other nuns and regularly working 12-hour days, Brooks’ patient load—in a region where seven out of ten patients that walked in her door had no way to pay for care—grew from 30-40 individuals per month to more than 8,500 annually. Thomason and Fisher tell her powerful story, including her tumultuous childhood, how she overcame crippling arthritis in early adulthood, and her near-unprecedented decision to attend medical school at the age of forty.

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  Dr. Ebony Lumumba- Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’

  Mississippi University for Women

  Dr. Ebony Lumumba is currently Chair of the English Department at Jackson State University. Ebony received her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Mississippi. She was named the Eudora Welty Research Fellow in 2013 and Tougaloo’s Humanities Teacher of the Year in 2014. Dr. Lumumba specializes in post colonial literatures of the Global South and cultural equity in film culture in her research and instruction. In her lecture on March 3, 2020 she discussed her most recent publication “Demonstration of Life: Signifying for Social Justice in Eudora Welty’s ‘The Demonstrators’" a chapter in New Essays on Eudora Welty, Class, and Race followed by a brief Q&A.