Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, is an epic tale of a woman's struggle to find equality, stability and freedom in a male dominated existence. Many of the issues which are written about in the novel were viewed or experienced by the author. As a black woman born in Eatonton, Georgia and raised in the South, Walker gained insight into the injustices inflicted upon not only her race, but also her gender. Compelled by the discriminations of her time she became an advocate in the Civil Rights Movement, volunteering in the voter registration drives of the 1960s in Georgia. She was also present for the "March on Washington

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