Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker,

Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker, more famously known as Alice Walker Born on February 9,1944 in Eatonton, Georgia Youngest of eight children To Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Her parents worked as sharecroppers They resisted the landlords Who expected the children of black sharecroppers to Work in the fields and said they need no education! Determined to give her daughter proper education, Alice's mother worked eleven hours a day to earn 17 USD per week. Living in a racially segregated society Alice was educated in Butler Baker High school meant for black people At the age of eight she was injured and got blind in one eye Which made her very self conscious and painfully shy But after treatment at the age 14 she became a valedictorian And voted the most popular girl in the class. With the help of a scholarship, Walker was able to attend Spelman College in Atlanta. She later switched to Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She became a highly acclaimed novelist as well as a social worker, teacher and lecturer Being influenced by Martin Luther King, Jr She became an active member of Civil Rights Movement More vocal for the rights of women of color, ‘Womanism' was a word coined by her specifically meaning the struggle of black women At the the intersection of race, class, and gender oppression In the Year 1982, Alice won Pulitzer prize for her Novel ‘Color Purple ‘ Alice had written many novels on issues like female sexuality, Female genital mutilation Which mostly centered around black women's struggle. Many works of literary gem from Alice's pen Helped her be inducted into California Hall of Fame. ,