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Hello everyone!Today our group will show you some information about black writers.First, let me introduce something about Alice Walker.Alice Walker is one of the most important African American writers of the contemporary period and her works have attracted the attention of both readers and critics at home and abroad.Walker is a novelist, a critic, a poet and activist as well.She is the first black woman novelist to win the Pulitzer Prize for her most famous novel The Color Purple which also was awarded the American Book Award in 1983.Alice Walker was born on February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker, who were sharecroppers.When Alice Walker was eight years old, she lost sight of one eye when one of her older brothers shot her with a BB gun by accident.She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965 and her first book of poems came out in 1968.Alice Walker started her own publishing company, Wild Trees Pre, in 1984.Alice Walker met Martin Luther King Jr.when she was a student at Spelman College in Atlanta in the early 1960s.Walker credits King for her decision to return to the American South as an activist for the Civil Rights Movement.She attended the famous 1963 March on Washington.As a young adult she volunteered her time registering voters in Georgia and Miiippi.On March 8, 2003, Alice Walker was arrested along with 24 others for croing a police line during an anti-war protest rally outside the White House.In November 2008, Alice Walker wrote “An Open Letter to Barack Obama” that was published on Theroot.com.Walker addrees the newly elected President as “Brother Obama” and writes “Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina, and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about”
In March 2009, Alice Walker traveled to Gaza along with a group of 60 other female activists from the anti-war group Code Pink, in response to the controversial Israeli offensive of December 2008-January 2009.The purpose of the trip was to deliver aid, to meet with NGOs and residents, and to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders into Gaza.She planned to visit Gaza again in December 2009 to participate in the Gaza Freedom March.Next, I want to show you some achievements of Alice Walker during her life.Among them, I want to introduce an article we are going to learn, that is everyday use.The short story everyday use, from the collection In Love and Trouble was published in1973.through the title of her short story, Alice walker conceptually exprees her warine of the Black Power Movement.During the mid-1960’s, young black African Americans proclaimed they would no longer be oppreed by their current lifestyle and began to celebrate African culture by exploiting it for exotic names and ethic appeal.The title Everyday Use presents the reader with the central conflict of the story: as a society evolves in sophistication should they honor their heritage by placing their cultural relics on a shelf to be admired, or honor their culture by putting these objects to everyday use.
