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 * Alice Walker**


 * Born in Eatonton, Georgia **
 * **At the age of 8 she had an accident wit a BB gun and it shot her in the eye, she**
 * didn't lift her head for 6 years until her parents were able to pay for the surgery. **
 * **She was a popular student, she graduated as a valedictorian and prom queen.**
 * **Attended Spelman College, it was an elite college for African American women**
 * in Atlanta. **
 * **She was a civil rights activists and attended the Martin Luther King Jr. speech**
 * "I Have a Dream" **
 * **After being in Spelman, she won a scholarship for fuller tuition to Sarah Lawrence**
 * College In Bronxville, New York. **
 * **Many of her fiction stories and essays reflect on her pride in her personal heritage**
 * and the culture of her people .**