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    Alice Walker

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    ALICE WALKER Alice Walker was an activist and feminist because she protested for the right of blacks to vote in Georgia and Mississippi. She was against racism and also sexism. On March 8th 2003‚ 5‚000 protestors and Alice Walker marched from Malcolm X Park to the White House for women to have the same human rights as men. She also made an activist group with 60 other female activists in order to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders in Gaza. She wrote and supported various civil rights

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    Alice Walker Influences

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    yourself (Quotina 2015)”. Alice Walker is an African American author and activist. Walker is best known for her Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award- Winning Novel‚ The Color Purple (Famous Birthdays 2015) Walker met Martin Luther King Jr. in the early 1960s and worked in Mississippi as a Civil Rights activist during that time (Biography 2015). Walker influenced society in a positive way as a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and with her poems‚ stories and quotes. Walker quotes and stories influenced

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    Alice Walker Influences

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    Alice Walker is a cosmopolitan and famous writer of our times despite being raised in an under-privileged environment. Despite poverty‚ discrimination in the face of Jim Crow laws and threats from the Ku Klux Klan‚ the Walkers saw to it that their children attended school. (Horsley‚ “Alice Walker”) While attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York City‚ Walker studied abroad to Africa where later that year she published her first story. Upon graduation‚ Walker began being active with the civil rights

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    Alice Walker Biography

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    Alice Walker was born on February ninth 1944‚ the youngest of eight children raised by Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. As a child Alice’s parents worked hard‚ her mother worked for eleven hours for $17 per week. When walker was young her mother defended her kids from working in other peoples fields by saying "You might have some black children somewhere‚ but they don’t live in this house. Don’t you ever come around here again talking about how my children don’t need to learn how

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    Alice Walker Creativity

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    Alice Walker also uses her own mother as a method to explain the way they are and the creativity they have lived in . She explains‚ "Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and respect for strength-in search of my mother’s garden‚ I found my own."(Walker 675) This quote shows how Walker was able to find her own creativity by seeing her mother’s creativity in the creation of her gardens. Walker’s mother grew beautiful gardens at every single house they had ever lived in‚it was so original in its

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    Alice Walker Essay 12

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    Alice Walker Walker begins her essay with a story from her early childhood. By starting her essay with a positive story about her and her beauty she lays the foundation for how much her future disfigurement is going to affect every aspect of her life. Walker asks her father is she can go to the fair with him and states that she is the prettiest (“Mercury” 45). From an early age Walker knew she was beautiful. She gained much of her self-worth from her exterior beauty at this age. In the next paragraph

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    Section 1 Celie’s Awakening The novel The Color Purple‚ by Alice Walker is a story about the struggle and the transformation of the protagonist Celie from a shy little girl that never stood up for herself who later on in her life developed into a strong confident and independent woman. Her awakening is due in large parts to the many female figures she met throughout her life. These figures are her sister Nettie‚ Mr.____’s sister Kate‚ Harpo’s wife Sofia‚

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    Alice Walker Karin Leiva November 6‚ 2012 Lisa Evans English 9 Leiva 1 Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9‚ 1944 in Eatonton‚ Georgia. She is an American author‚ poet‚ and activist. She has written both fiction and essays about gender and race. Her writing mostly focuses on the role of women of color in their culture and history. Alice Walker actually expresses’ her feeling in any of her works. She usually reflects on herself and her feelings

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    Alice Walker: Writings on Race David Turley Lib. 316 Annemarie Hamlin 02/22/2010 Alice Walker: Writings on Race Alice Walker has spent her adult life writing about gender and race. Walker’s achievements include the Pulitzer Prize‚ the first African-American woman recipient of the National Book Award‚ and numerous other literary awards in her life (Walker‚ 2009). She has spent her life’s career engaging in activism and helping

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    Alice Walker was born on February 4‚ 1944‚ and she is the youngest of eight siblings. Walker grew up poorly attending segregated schools. Since the age of eight‚ she has been partially blind‚ and to cope with that she wrote. She started out writing poetry‚ and later evolved to short stories and novels. Walker writes based off her life experience‚ African American women‚ her mother’s teachings‚ and family traditions. Her writings‚ Everyday Use and The Color Purple are two of her most popular writings

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