Alice Walker
Poet, Writer
Alice Walker
Alice Walker is deeply committed to social change and is an advocate for civil rights, women's equality, nuclear disarmament, animal rights and environmental issues.
Alice wrote the extraordinary novel, The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer. She is a poet (her books of poetry include Horses Make A Landscape Look More Beautiful and Revolutionary Petunias), a short story writer, a biographer, a children's book author, an essayist, and a novelist. Alice was born in Eatonton, Georgia and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Five Bold Freedom Fighters
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Five Bold Freedom Fighters
by Wade Hudson and Ron GarnettThis easy-to-read group biography describes the early lives of Richard Allen, one of the founders of the Free African Society, the first formally organized African American group in the United States; Harriet Tubman, a major conductor of the Underground Railroad; Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement; Medgar Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a leading civil rights activist who gained national
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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement, from 1954 to 1968
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A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement, from 1954 to 1968
by Diane McWhorterDiane McWhorter grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s and 60s. Set against the back drop of her personal story, this powerful but intimate book explores the sacrifices and triumphs of African Americans in their pursuit of social and political equality and takes a hard, painful look at the often violent resistance they met from white Americans. It profiles the remarkable people and the rise of important organizations in the movement. It analyzes the impact of classic civil rights landm
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