The Welcome Table Summary
Alice Walker

The Welcome Table Summary

Old Black Woman

Nearly blind, with a lean build and a grayish tone to her skin. She wears a mildewed black dress with missing buttons and a grease-stained headrag covering her pigtails. She has blue-brown eyes, is ashen in appearance and very wrinkled. She is perspiring from her walk and is shivering from the cold. She enters the white church and sits, singing in her head. She is physically thrown out of the church...

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