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Alice worked in the Deep South during the Civil Rights Era to earn voting rights for disenfranchised African Americans, and took part in the 1963 March on Washington.

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As a child, Alice was blinded in one eye by a BB gun pellet from one of her brothers; she never told of the incident, and it perhaps fueled the theme(s) of sibling rivalry found in "Everyday Use".

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"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

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"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men."

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Married a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1967, gave birth to a biracial child in the midst of heightening racil tensions.

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Walkler published The Color Purple in 1982, and became a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1982, as well as the first black woman to win the National Book Award. The novel has themes of romantic and familial love-- another novel that emphasizes the importance of family and heritage.

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Alice Walker reading "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth, 2006

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Alice Walker reading "Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth, 2006

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Voices of a People's History of the United States

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Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. (Deep South region)

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Born into a sharecropper family.