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Through his work, Leventhal met the writer Alice Walker. She came to trust and admire him due to his willingness to endanger his own social status and well-being by standing up to bigotry. On March 17, 1967, Leventhal and Walker married in New York, in a civil ceremony performed by Family Court Judge Justine W. Polier. [5]
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) [2] is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction , which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple .
Rebecca Walker (born Rebecca Leventhal; November 17, 1969) is an American writer, feminist, and activist.Walker has been regarded as one of the prominent voices of Third Wave Feminism, and the coiner of the term "third wave", since publishing a 1992 article on feminism in Ms. magazine called "Becoming the Third Wave", in which she proclaimed: "I am the Third Wave."
Whoopi Goldberg has always loved telling stories, and her latest book, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me (Blackstone) is about the 2 people who knew her best: her late mother, Emma ...
The 'Mean Girls' star shares daughters Alice, 18, and Penelope, 13, with husband Jeff Richmond Tina Fey's Daughters Look Just Like Mom as They Make Rare Appearance at US Open Women's Final Skip to ...
Meadow Walker, Louis Thornton-Allan. Getty Images (2) Paul Walker’s daughter, Meadow Walker, is officially filing for divorce from Louis Thornton-Allan one month after calling it quits.
Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1969, and living there as a child, Rebecca Walker is the daughter of Alice Walker, a Black Protestant womanist writer, and Melvyn R. Leventhal, a white Jewish civil rights lawyer. Her parents became active in the later years of the Civil Rights Movement.
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