Contrasts Walker's location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty's location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away(5/6)

Jackson residents Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty's vexed relationship with their home city in the early 1960s. Contrasting the black neigborhood of Walker and Evers with the white neighborhood of Welty, 3.6 miles away. From what locations did these two writers meet the aesthetic challenges and ethical imperatives of this moment? (See text of Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970) and an excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963) below.)

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local, a presentation by Minrose Gwin
southernspaces.org/2008/mourning-medgar-justice-aesthetics-and-local
Published on March 11, 2008

Speaking at Emory University on February 19, 2008, Dr. Gwin considers how attention to historical location and to locally-embodied experiences raises questions about justice, aesthetics, and memory. She examines the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, through writings by James Baldwin, Anne Moody, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Walker.