Judson College distinguished alumna Mary Ward Brown will be inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame on March 16 at the University of West Alabama (UWA) in Livingston.
Other inductees are the late agricultural chemist George Washington Carver and blues artist and civil rights pioneer Willie Earl King.
“We are pleased to induct [these] into the Black Belt Hall of Fame,” said Valerie Burns, director of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt, a project of UWA. “They have done amazing work to make life better for the citizens of the Black Belt, and we bestow this honor upon them to celebrate their achievements and all that is possible because of them.”
Brown’s stories have been published in many magazines, including McCall’s, Southern Living and The Atlantic.
Her first story collection, “Tongues of Flame,” won an Alabama Authors Award and a PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award in 1987. She published a second collection, “It Wasn’t All Dancing,” in 2002 and “Fanning the Spark: A Memoir” in 2009.
For more information, visit centerforblackbelt.org or call Burns at 205-652-3829.
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