Walker, Alice

"An illustrated picture book featuring a poem by . . . writer and activist Alice Walker, is a . . . celebration of humanity. The poem addresses a young boy getting his first passport, taking the boy--and the reader--on a journey through a series of countries around the globe where 'sweet people' can be found"--.

"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence."--Page 4 of cover.

Twentieth-century African-American author Alice Walker presents a memoir of her marriage to a white man in early civil rights-era Misissippi and several short stories inspired by the marriage's initial magic and its eventual disintegration.

The first published volume of poetry that established African-American poet Alice Walker as one of the most significant American poets of the late twentieth century.

Three couples, two in crisis, talk about themselves and reconstruct the missing pieces of the past and in the end, they deeply affect one another.

Tells the story of two African-American sisters: Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God.".

A story of the American South in the 1960's. Meridian Hill is a courageous young activist and has dedicated herself to the Civil rights Movement.