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The document summarizes American author and activist Alice Walker's life and work focusing on how her writings highlighted issues of race and gender having been influenced by her involvement in the civil rights movement as a student in the 1960s. It notes she won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for her novel "The Color Purple" and credits Martin Luther King III for inspiring her activism.

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Alice Walker Race and Gender highlighted in writings, influenced by her activism By Gayle Fergusson Troy University
 Born February 9, 1944, American author, poet and activist Alice Malsenior Walker wrote both fiction and essays about race and gender.  As a student of Spellman College in the 1960s, Walker got a chance to meet Martin Luther King III and credits him for her choice to be an activist.  Won Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction for “The Color Purple”, O. Henry award for “Kindred Spirits”.
 Slavery  Poverty  Abuse  Gender “Part of the creation of the color purple is just to be more intimate with my ancestors in a time when I didn’t exist.” Walker
Women’s struggle (images the acclaimed movie by Stephen Spielberg) “Part of the creation of the color purple is just to be more intimate with my ancestors in a time when I didn’t exist.” Walker
 “In the early 1960s, the fundamental prize sought by the civil rights movement was something that African Americans had never known: full legal equality.” (JFK in History)
1960 Women’s Liberation Movement
 Poverty  Racism  Gender “Written during the heyday of the Black Power movement, when African Americans were trying to gain racial equality and called for self determination and racial dignity.“ (Johannes)
The color of purple
 Hoffman, Melody K. The Color Purple. Jet 119.6 14 Feb 2011: 42. Johnson Pub. Co. 3 Dec 2012.  "Civil Rights Movement." JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. n. page. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Civil-Rights- Movement.asp&xgt;>  N. Sink, . "1960's - 1980's Women's Liberation Movement ." (2008): n. page. Web. 5 Dec. 2012. <http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/womenslli beration/womensliberation.htm>  Alice Walker: Everyday Use, Uncommon Art “Films Media Group” (2003) Web. 5 Dec. 2012 http://ffh.films.com/id/5979/Alice_Walker_Everyday_Use_Unco mmon_Art.htm  Johannes Timpe, 2005, Alice Walker - Everyday Use, München, GRIN Verlag GmbH, <http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/109496. html

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The color of purple

  • 1. Alice Walker Race and Gender highlighted in writings, influenced by her activism By Gayle Fergusson Troy University
  • 2. ď‚ž Born February 9, 1944, American author, poet and activist Alice Malsenior Walker wrote both fiction and essays about race and gender. ď‚ž As a student of Spellman College in the 1960s, Walker got a chance to meet Martin Luther King III and credits him for her choice to be an activist. ď‚ž Won Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Fiction for “The Color Purple”, O. Henry award for “Kindred Spirits”.
  • 3. ď‚ž Slavery ď‚ž Poverty ď‚ž Abuse ď‚ž Gender “Part of the creation of the color purple is just to be more intimate with my ancestors in a time when I didn’t exist.” Walker
  • 4. Women’s struggle (images the acclaimed movie by Stephen Spielberg) “Part of the creation of the color purple is just to be more intimate with my ancestors in a time when I didn’t exist.” Walker
  • 5. ď‚ž “In the early 1960s, the fundamental prize sought by the civil rights movement was something that African Americans had never known: full legal equality.” (JFK in History)
  • 7. ď‚ž Poverty ď‚ž Racism ď‚ž Gender “Written during the heyday of the Black Power movement, when African Americans were trying to gain racial equality and called for self determination and racial dignity.“ (Johannes)
  • 9. ď‚ž Hoffman, Melody K. The Color Purple. Jet 119.6 14 Feb 2011: 42. Johnson Pub. Co. 3 Dec 2012. ď‚ž "Civil Rights Movement." JOHN F. KENNEDY PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. n. page. Web. 6 Dec. 2012. <http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/Civil-Rights- Movement.asp&xgt;> ď‚ž N. Sink, . "1960's - 1980's Women's Liberation Movement ." (2008): n. page. Web. 5 Dec. 2012. <http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/womenslli beration/womensliberation.htm> ď‚ž Alice Walker: Everyday Use, Uncommon Art “Films Media Group” (2003) Web. 5 Dec. 2012 http://ffh.films.com/id/5979/Alice_Walker_Everyday_Use_Unco mmon_Art.htm ď‚ž Johannes Timpe, 2005, Alice Walker - Everyday Use, MĂĽnchen, GRIN Verlag GmbH, <http://www.hausarbeiten.de/faecher/vorschau/109496. html