American Masters Season 28 Episode 2 - Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth

Airdate: 2014-Feb-07

Episode summary:

"Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth" is the first film biography of writer and activist Alice Walker. Most famous for her seminal novel "The Color Purple" for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, Walker was raised in poverty in the rural South during the violent and seismic social changes of mid-20th century America. Women, poverty and civil rights became the inherent themes in her writing.

About American Masters series:

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