AliceWalker


 * //Alice Walker, the author of __The Color Purple__ was born Febuary 9th, 1944. She is an American Poet and Author, who mostly writes about race and gender. Though she is most famous for __The Color Purple,__ she has written a collection of poems and short stories. Her works typically focus on the struggles of blacks, particularly women, and their struggle against a racist////, sexist, and violent society. Such as in __The Color Purple__ for which she won the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction.//**


 * Alice Malsenior Walker was born and raised in Georgia. Her father earned only $300 a year from sharecropping and dairy farming, while her mother, who helped him in the fields, supplemented the family income by working as a maid. Alice was the youngest of eight children. When Alice was young her family had to live under the Jim Croes Laws, white landlords would tell Alice's mother that her children should be working in the field instead of learning to read and write, but her mother brushed them off and told them " you may have black children somewhere but they don't live in this house. Don't ever come around here again telling me my children don't need to learn how to read and write."**

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