Roselily presents a young, black, Missippi woman who, with strong misgivings, escapes her impossible circumstances by marrying a...
politics
Alice Walker
With David DeMoss
and about 250,000 other people, 60,000 of them white, AW
attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963 in support of the impending Civil Rights Act, and...
Health
Alice Walker
In UgandaAW
became pregnant by David DeMoss
. Since his visit was unexpected (he was spending the summer in Tanzania) she was not using birth-control. She was determined to get an abortion (not an...
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...