Meridian (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Alice Walker
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social morality
- Time of Work: The 1960’s, during the Civil Rights movement
- Setting: New York City, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: African Americans
- Locales: New York, NY
Characters Discussed
Meridian Hill, a black civil rights worker. A thin woman with a dark thick braid and reddish-brown skin, she is neither pretty nor homely but is at her most beautiful when sad. Meridian comes from a poor but respectable family in the South. She becomes pregnant while still in high school and soon finds herself with a husband and a son she cannot love. Her only satisfaction comes from working with civil rights workers registering voters, a campaign she joins in 1960 after the workers’ headquarters is bombed. A college scholarship enables her to break away...
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