Alice Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia in 1944. Her mother, a maid, and her father, a sharecropper, struggled to provide for their family. Alice, the youngest of eight children, did not receive much parental attention. In 1952, When Walker was eight years old, one of her older brothers shot her right eye with a… Continue reading A Glimpse into Gender, Race, and Education in the South: Alice Walker’s Archives