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.
Title
Author Alice Walker reads the short story, Roselily
Published
Los Angeles , Pacifica Radio Archives, 1994.
Full Collection Name
Pacifica Radio Archives Social Activism Sound Recording Project
Type
Audio
Extent
1 online resource.
Archive
The Library
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.
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