MS HR84

Honors Alice Walker upon her induction into the 2022 Class of the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience Hall of Fame on December 15, 2022

Recognizes Walker as the author of "The Color Purple," which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was adapted into a film receiving 11 Academy Award nominations

Acknowledges Walker's role as a key figure during the Civil Rights Movement and her associations with Jackson State University and Tougaloo College as a writer-in-residence

Notes The MAX (Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience) in Meridian was created by the Legislature in 2001 and initiated its Hall of Fame in January 2017 with 18 inaugural inductees

Directs copies of the resolution be furnished to The MAX and the Capitol Press Corps