Meridian

by Alice Walker

Meridian


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Meridian is the center of this short novel, which opens in 1968 in Chicokema, a small town in Georgia, where she is working to encourage black people to register to vote in her attempt to continue the Civil Rights movement into the 1970’s. She has spent the 1960’s working in various small towns in the deep South. She has gone to New York City but did not join the group there because, even though she was willing to give her own life, she could not honestly bring herself to say that she could kill for the cause. At the beginning of the novel, which is near the...

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