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Delta State's Delta Center Distributes Books to Promote Literacy

28 July  2010

CLEVELAND - The Harry Potter Alliance (HPA), an international association of activists, recently sent thousands of books to the Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning to be distributed across the Delta to promote literacy.

HPA is the creation of Andrew Slack, who serves as its executive director and who approached the Delta Center with this project. He credits the 40 Alliance volunteer staff members and the 60 local chapters with making the book drive possible.

The free books sorted by reader age are now being distributed across the Delta to entities already engaged in literacy which includes the Saint Gabriel Mercy Center and the Mound Bayou Public Schools Alumni Association in Mound Bayou, the Greenville Renaissance Scholars in Greenville, the Family Reading Program of the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Sunflower Freedom Project in Sunflower, and other organizations.

From left to right: Luther Brown of the Delta Center, Ken Brown, Mitchell Williams and Lloyd Robinson, from the Mound Bayou School District.

From left to right: Lynn Shurden of the Bolivar County Library System, Heather Kovarcik of the Delta Center and Andy Olson of the Bolivar County Library System.

From left to right: Kovarcik of the Delta Center, Kay Slater and Demitrice Dixon, from the Sunflower Public Library, and Lee Aylward of the Delta Center.