{"id":1055,"date":"2008-10-01T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2008-10-01T08:51:32","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T14:51:32","slug":"banned-the-color-purple-by-alice-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-the-color-purple-by-alice-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"BANNED &#8211; The Color Purple by Alice Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-color-purple.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"280\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1056 alignleft\" title=\"the-color-purple\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/the-color-purple.jpg?resize=170%2C280&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winning novel depicts the struggle of an abused and uneducated black woman as she fights the cycle of violence and grows as a human being. It depicts how cruelty and hatred destory as well as the healing power of love.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm75964053&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">The Color Purple<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is the story of two sisters &#8211; one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South &#8211; who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Powerful and inspirational, it is a celebration of the human spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Regularly appearing on American Library Association&#8217;s top ten most banned books list, The Color Purple is frequently challenged for it&#8217;s depiction of homosexuality, sexually explicit descriptions and language.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate your freedom to read &#8211; do not take this precious democratic freedom for granted! Visit the American Library Association&#8217;s site on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/aboutala\/offices\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bannedbooksweek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Banned Books Week<\/a><\/strong> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winning novel depicts the struggle of an abused and uneducated black woman as she fights the cycle of violence and grows as a human being. It depicts how cruelty and hatred destory as well as the healing power of love. The Color Purple is the story<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-the-color-purple-by-alice-walker\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,136],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-banned","tag-challenged"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-h1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}