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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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Schomburg, Arthur. The New Negro. New York: Touchstone, 1992.
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Walker, Alice. The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
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