Alyssa’s AP Blog

Alice Walker is a poet, writer and civil rights activist. She was born in Georgia on February 9,1944. Walker watched her parents suffer from the affects of the Jim Crow Laws. She met Martin Luther King Jr. when she was attending Spelman College. She credits him for her involvement in civil rights activism. Her first book was published while she was a college senior at Sarah Lawrence (where she transferred to). Many of her works discuss feminism and racism. She wrote a few novels, but mostly focuses on short stories and poems. One of here more famous short stories is “Everyday Use”. She also wrote the play “The Color Purple” which became a Broadway musical in 2005. Though she has accomplished a lot in her life, she is still live and kicking at the ripe old age of sixty-five.