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'The Color Purple' to brighten EJ Thomas stage

Akron Leader Publications - Jan 26, 2012
The Houston native said watching the 1985 Steven Spielberg film of Alice Walker's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel was something of a family tradition at his home. “I grew up watching it,” Ross said. “I read the book on my own in college and revisited the ...

Reflections on Occupy Wall Street From Nancy Pelosi, Alice Walker, Arianna ...

Huffington Post - Jan 5, 2012
At a holiday dinner with family, the conversation turned to the Occupy Wall Street movement. My mother made a comment about how the spirit of the movement had seemed to have somewhat come and passed, the protests seemingly swept away by other ...

On the beat: 'Color Purple' runs gamut of emotions

Canton Repository - Jan 27, 2012
Celie, played by Whoopi Goldberg in the 1985 film version of Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is a downtrodden young African-American girl in the early 1900s who endures years of varied abuse before finding her strength and self-worth.

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The Color Purple

by: Alice Walker
Alice Walker’s masterpiece, a powerful novel of courage in the face of oppression
 Celie has grown up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she’s badly treated by her family. As a teenager she begins writing letters directly to God in an attempt to transcend a life that often seems too much to bear. Her letters span twenty years and record a journey of self-discovery and empowerment through the guiding light of a few strong women and her own implacable will to find harmony with herself and her home.
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Meridian

by: Alice Walker
Meridian Hill is a young woman at an Atlanta college attempting to find her place in the revolution for racial and social equality. She discovers the limits beyond which she will not go for the cause, but despite her decision not to follow the path of some of her peers, she makes significant sacrifices in order to further her beliefs. Working in a campaign to register African American voters, Meridian cares broadly and deeply for the people she visits, and, while her coworkers quit and move to comfortable homes, she continues to work in the deep South despite a paralyzing illness.
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