JACKSON, Mississippi, April 8 -- The Mississippi Department of Archives and History issued the following news release on April 7, 2025: * * * MDAH Announces 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellow Kyle Alvey, Purdue University doctoral student, will center research on Welty's short story about Medgar Evers' Assassination Kyle Alvey, a doctoral student at Purdue University, has been named the 2025 Eudora Welty Research Fellow. Alvey will use archival holdings in the Eudora Welty Collection housed   more