Meridian

Introduction

Meridian is a 1976 novel by Alice Walker. It has been described as Walker's "meditation on the modern civil rights movement."[1] Meridian is about Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who is attending college as she embraces the civil rights movement at a time when the movement becomes violent. The story follows her life into the 1970s through a relationship that ultimately fails, and her continued efforts to support the movement.


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