Alice Walker The Color Purple Essay

The award winning book The Color Purple by Alice Walker has been banned in many schools around the US. Alice Walker is an African-American author who was born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia. Walker was not only a author but she was Women’s Right Activist, and a Civil Rights Activist. Growing up for was not easy for her, she was youngest daughter of eight children. Her mother and father were sharecroppers; her mother worked as a maid to support them. According Biography.com, “Alice managed to achieve many academics and was valedictorian. She attended Spelman College in Atlanta with the help of a scholarship; she later moved to New York where she attended Lawrence College”(“Alice”). During her time at Lawrence, Walker was apart of a study-abroad program and was lucky enough to get the opportunity to visit Africa. When Walker got back, she graduated and published her first short story. Her time in New York she was involved in many Civil Right Movements, she found her husband a Jewish lawyer Melvyn Leventhal and later on had a daughter named Rebecca. According to Biography.com, “Alice Walker still lives today and is famous for many other books she has written such as Processing the Secret of Joy, The Temple of My Familiar, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down, and In Love & Trouble”(“Alice”).
Alice Walker has not written any more banned books other …show more content…
According to Banned Book Awareness.com, “ In 1985 it was rejected for purchase by Hayward, California school’s trustee because of ‘rough language’ and ‘explicit sex scenes’”(Banned Book). Not only was it banned in Hayward, Banned Book Awareness.com has reported that “The book was also removed from the shelves of the Newport News, Virginia school library in 1986 because of its “profanity and sexual references”, and was made accessible only to students over 18, or who had written permission from a parent“(Banned