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Education | Alice Walker | AW
left home, on a bus which segregated passengers by race, for Spelman College
in Atlanta, a highly-regarded, all-female, historically black institution. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 64 |
Education | Alice Walker | The student body at Spelman College
was largely middle-class, and the school cared about decorum and gentility. AW
was taught history , including Russian history, by Howard Zinn
, an idealistic and politically active Jewish... |
Employer | Alice Walker | Among AW
's many lecturing engagements was one at Spelman College
where she spoke on oppressed hair, that is black hair artificially straightened. She established there an annual Zora Neale Hurston
-Langston Hughes
Award... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Walker | The young AW
always, from her highschool days, had a boyfriend. While at Spelman College
she met two male students attending other colleges with whom she had important relationships: the black Robert Allen
and the... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Alice Walker | AW
wrote at highschool and at Spelman College
, but at Sarah Lawrence College
she found people who understood how writing could be something one had to do, and she began to believe that by... |
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