Alice Walker was born in the antastic year of 1944 in the hreat state of Georgia. At four years old she was pu into the 4th grade by her mother one year ahead of everyone else. The landlords didnt like her going to school because they wanted her to work in the fields. Because of Martin Luther King Jr. she went back to her home in the south and became a activist of civil rights. She was walking with the many other people during the walk on Washington. In 1965 she met a wonderful man by the name of Mel Leventhal who was also a civil rights activist but of the Jewish faith. In 2003 she was arrested for crossing the police lines in an anti war protest near the White House