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ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH

Directed by Pratibha Parmar
United States, United Kingdom, 2013
Documentary, Biography
  • 8282 minutes

Synopsis

Alice Walker stepped out of poverty with no more than a typewriter, suitcase and sewing machine before becoming the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (for The Color Purple) and an outspoken activist on social justice issues ranging from female genital mutilation to unjust war.

Synopsis

Alice Walker stepped out of poverty with no more than a typewriter, suitcase and sewing machine before becoming the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (for The Color Purple) and an outspoken activist on social justice issues ranging from female genital mutilation to unjust war.