Alice Walker biography
https://www.biography.com/people/alice-walker-9521939
Information on Alice Walker, Pulizter-prize winning author, activist, and poet.
New York Times review of Meridian
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/walker-meridian.html
New York Times columnist Marge Piercy reviews Meridian.
History of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement
An online history of the civil rights movement, including pictures, videos, and speech transcripts.
