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On This Day in Women’s History, Alice Walker Becomes the First African-American to Win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, April 18, 1983. Just ten days later, her novel The Color Purple, also won the National Book Award for fiction.
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“Activism is the rent we pay for living on this planet.”
Alice Walker