Alice Walker Accomplishments
Alice Malsenior Walker was born February 9, 1944, in Putnam county located in Eatonton Georgia. Struggles of being a black woman in the 1960’s and a childhood accident would eventually help her write her most famous book The Color Purple. She would also go on to attempt to thank her brother for giving her confidence and courage to follow her dreams but he died before she had chance. Alice Walker’s work has made her an acclaimed book and poem writer. Alice’s work in both the civil rights movement in the 60’s and her inspiring books, have a huge impact on her present day career and overall accomplishments.
Her parents are Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Willie worked as a sharecropper and Minnie worked as a maid to help the …show more content…
The book is set in the South around the 1930’s. The book is about 14 year old Celie who is an uneducated African American women who experiences hardship, abuse, and rape by both her husband and stepfather who she believes is her real father. The book shows the trials black women had to go through and their suffering for people they love. Ms. Walker also won the Pulitzer Prize and National book award for Fiction in 1983.
While attending a civil rights rally, Alice met her soon to be husband Melvyn Leventhal who was a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. The two fell in love and got married in 1967. After they were married, they were constantly harassed because they were an interracial couple. They had a daughter named Rebecca Walker and soon after they got a divorce in 1973. One of her quotes that describe her and her overall career “ The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don’t have any” - Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s work both in the civil rights movement and her years working up to becoming a well known author prove that your upbringing and injuries can be the greatest reason for you to follow your dreams because you are different. Alice walker was blind in one eye and graduated valedictorian of her class and became a well known
Her parents are Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. Willie worked as a sharecropper and Minnie worked as a maid to help the …show more content…
The book is set in the South around the 1930’s. The book is about 14 year old Celie who is an uneducated African American women who experiences hardship, abuse, and rape by both her husband and stepfather who she believes is her real father. The book shows the trials black women had to go through and their suffering for people they love. Ms. Walker also won the Pulitzer Prize and National book award for Fiction in 1983.
While attending a civil rights rally, Alice met her soon to be husband Melvyn Leventhal who was a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. The two fell in love and got married in 1967. After they were married, they were constantly harassed because they were an interracial couple. They had a daughter named Rebecca Walker and soon after they got a divorce in 1973. One of her quotes that describe her and her overall career “ The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don’t have any” - Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s work both in the civil rights movement and her years working up to becoming a well known author prove that your upbringing and injuries can be the greatest reason for you to follow your dreams because you are different. Alice walker was blind in one eye and graduated valedictorian of her class and became a well known