Poet Alice Walker

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Alice Walker

Living place: Georgia

Birthday: 9-2-1944 (80 years old)

Population of US 1944: 138,397,345

Global rank: #17848

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Who is Poet Alice Walker?
African-American poet and author known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the National Book Award-winning novel, The Color Purple. Her other literary works include Meridian (1976) and Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973).
She met Martin Luther King, Jr. in the early 1960s and worked in Mississippi as a human rights activist.
 
 

Young / Before famous

She began writing at the age of eight and completed her first book of poetry while a student at Sarah Lawrence College. She worked as an editor for her magazine before moving to California in the 1970s.

Family life info

She and seven siblings were born in Putnam County, Georgia to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant. In 1967, she and Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish lawyer, became the first interracial couple to legally marry in the state of Mississippi. They divorced in 1976.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Poet Alice Walker?
She was inspired by civil rights activist, Rosa Parks.

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When was Poet Alice Walker born?
Alice Walker birthday 9-2-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Poet Alice Walker's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Alice Walker was born in Georgia, . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Aquarius, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. Alice Walker's global rank is 17848 and whose rank is 18 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1944 is about 138,397,345 persons.
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Events in 1944 and 9-2

Events in US in the birth year of Alice Walker

  • FDR is reelected, beating Republican challenger Thomas Dewey. Background: Presidential Elections, 1789–present
  • GI Bill of Rights is passed, providing benefits for armed-service veterans.

Birthday Alice Walker (9-2) in history

  • Day 9-2 year 1861: Jefferson Davis was chosen as the president of the Confederate States of America.
  • Day 9-2 year 1943: The battle of Guadalcanal ended with an American victory.
  • Day 9-2 year 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed he had evidence there were card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the State Department.
  • Day 9-2 year 1964: The Beatles made their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
  • Day 9-2 year 1991: Lithuanians voted overwhelmingly for independence from the Soviet Union.
  • Day 9-2 year 2001: A U.S. nuclear sub struck the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat.
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