Remote Learning Academy-Project Based Learning: Civil Rights and Literature

From: Critical Companion to Alice Walker: "The Color Purple is the story of a woman's journey from invisibility and degradation to wholeness and graceful communion with herself and her community. The novel is told through a series of letters that the protagonist, Celie, writes, mostly to God; sometimes to her absent sister, Nettie; and, toward the end of the book, to the universe at large..."

From: The Color Purple - Alice Walker, New Edition "Alice Walker, an activist during the Civil Rights Movement of the Blacks in the U. S., goes beyond the protest novels of Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Chester Himes and others to assert the ethnicity of her Black characters..."

From: Postwar Literature, 1945–1970 "The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s has been recognized globally as the most transformative social movement of twentieth-century America. Likewise, the Black Power movement that grew out of it in the 1960s is also viewed as having a significant impact on race relations in the United States..."

"The tradition of African-American autobiographical narrative began in the 18th century with the works of writers like Venture Smith, John Marrant, Olaudah Equiano and Briton Hammon (no relation to Jupiter Hammon), whose 1760 Narrative is considered the first slave narrative..."

"Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Alice Walker (born 1944) was best known for her stories about black women who achieve heroic stature within the confines of their ordinary day-to-day lives..."