Meridian Summary
Alice Walker

Meridian Summary

Meridian is the story of a young black woman, Meridian Hill, in the 1960s. Meridian gets pregnant in high school and has a short-lived marriage with her child's father, and then joins the Civil Rights Movement and gives up her son to go to college. Meridian finds herself unable to commit to the violence of the Civil Rights Movement and begins becoming ill, a manifestation of her conflicts about the injustice...

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