Alice Walker’s dedication to voter rights began in Putnam County.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple recalls a time as a young girl when she and her father walked to a Putnam County polling place — a tiny, white-owned store “in the middle of nowhere.”
As he went to cast his first vote, Mr. Walker was met by three white men holding shotguns. They were enforcing the Jim Crow “laws” …