She took a job as a case-worker with New York City's welfare department. She found it especially hard dealing with psychiatric cases whose illness, she was aware, was the direct result of the dire circumstances...
Family and Intimate relationships
Alice Walker
To enable AW
to move north, Mel Leventhal
took a job in the New York office of the NAACP
, working for their Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two years after the divorce he married...
Reception
Alice Walker
Like the novel itself, the movie aroused indignation from those who felt that the language, the appearance, and the sexual activities of its characters, somehow demeaned black people as a whole. A group calling itself...
Timeline
January 1909: The National Association for the Advancement...
“A Century of Racial Segregation, 1849-1950”. The Library of Congress: Exhibitions.
12 June 1963: Medgar Evers, field secretary of the Mississippi...
National or international item
12 June 1963
Medgar Evers
, field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP
, was assassinated, shot down from behind
Brown, Carolyn J. “Sister Act: Margaret Walker and Eudora Welty”. Study the South, 25 Mar. 2015.
in his own driveway in Jackson, Mississippi.
Marrs, Suzanne. Eudora Welty: A Biography. Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
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December 1967: In the USA the NAACP's Pittsburgh office...
Building item
December 1967
In the USA the NAACP
's Pittsburgh office issued a statement objecting to Planned Parenthood
's distribution of contraceptives, including the pill, in low-income areas, referring to the practice as an instrument of racial genocide...