Author Alice Walker reads the short story, Roselily
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker (1944-) reads her short story "Roselily" (written ca. 1967). Walker then talks with KPFA's Ginny Z. Berson about the story, how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney and how it questions the dominance of Christianity over all religions in the US. The story was dropped from a 10th grade English test by California state educators based on complaints from Christian conservatives in early 1994. The Traditional Values Coalition applied pressure based on what they read as "anti-religious" elements in the story. |
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Title |
Author Alice Walker reads the short story, Roselily |
Creator |
Berson, Ginny Z. interviewer. Walker, Alice. interviewee. |
Creator |
Pacifica Radio Archive. KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.). |
Published |
Los Angeles :, Pacifica Radio Archives,, 1994. |
Extent |
1 online resource. |
Repository |
Pacifica Radio Archives. |
Reproduction Note |
Electronic reproduction. |
Grant Information |
Sponsored by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives and Records Administration as part of Pacifica's American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 grant preservation project. |
Usage Statement |
RESTRICTED. |
Tracks |
PRA_NHPRC1_AZ1010_00_000_00.mp3 00:23:14 |
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