Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Alice Walker across 3 places, from 1970 to 2009.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Alice Walker is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Alice Walker was documented, and when
1970year
Tougaloo Collegeattested“In addition to her work at Tougaloo College, Walker published her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland, in 1970.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
1972year
University of Massachusetts Bostonattested“In the fall of 1972, Walker taught a course in Black Women's Writers at the University of Massachusetts Boston.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
December 2009month
Gaza Cityattested“She planned to visit Gaza again in December 2009 to participate in the Gaza Freedom March.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
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Places Alice Walker is documented in
Gaza City1 presence · 2009
Tougaloo College1 presence · 1970
University of Massachusetts Boston1 presence · 1972
Other places tied to Alice Walker in the record
In each of these, a source puts Alice Walker and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1961year
Spelman Collegementioned“There, she went on to become valedictorian, and enrolled in Spelman College in 1961 after being granted a full scholarship by the state of Georgia for having the highest academic achievements of her class.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
1965year
Sarah Lawrence Collegementioned“Walker graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1965.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
17 March 1967exact date
New Yorkmentioned“The couple married on March 17, 1967, in New York City, since interracial marriage was then illegal in the South, and divorced in 1976.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
17 March 1967exact date
New York Citymentioned“The couple married on March 17, 1967, in New York City, since interracial marriage was then illegal in the South, and divorced in 1976.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
1968 to 1970period
Jackson State Universitymentioned“She later returned to writing as writer-in-residence at Jackson State University (1968–69) and Tougaloo College (1970–71).”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
1989year
Englandmentioned“Phalia (Portrait of Alice Walker) (1989) is a photograph by Maud Sulter from her Zabat series originally produced for the Rochdale Art Gallery in England.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
2007year
Emory Universitymentioned“In 2007, Walker donated her papers, consisting of 122 boxes of manuscripts and archive material, to Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
23 June 2011exact date
Gaza Citymentioned“On June 23, 2011, she announced plans to participate in an aid flotilla to Gaza that attempted to break Israel's naval blockade.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
May 2013month
Tel Avivmentioned“In May 2013, Walker posted an open letter to singer Alicia Keys, asking her to cancel a planned concert in Tel Aviv.”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
2018year
New Yorkmentioned“In 2018, an interviewer from The New York Times Book Review asked Walker "What books are on your nightstand?" She listed Icke's And the Truth Shall Set You Free, a book promoting an antisemitic conspiracy theory which draws on The Protoc…”source: Wikipedia: Alice Walker
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explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
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