![]() ![]() Keenly interested in women's issues, she realized that while the generation of feminists to which her mother belonged had worked to achieve many important gains for young women, a new direction was necessary to set the tone for the 1990s and beyond. By the time she graduated in 1992, Walker was already a contributing editor to Ms. Walker attended Yale University, where she won a prize for academic excellence. ![]() ![]() Thus she attended schools in Westchester County, an affluent suburban area of New York City, as well as in the more free-spirited community of San Francisco, to which her mother had moved. ![]() Hoping to share child-rearing duties equally, her parents decided that Walker would spent two-year intervals with each of them. By 1974, they had settled with their daughter in the New York City area, but divorced when Rebecca was eight. When they married, they became Mississippi's first legally married biracial couple. Her Georgia-born mother, a published poet by then, had become active in the civil rights movement and met a white attorney, Mel Leventhal, while working on a voter-registration drive in Mississippi. Born in 1969 in Jackson, Mississippi, Walker came into the world as a symbol of the civil-rights era and harbinger of a new age. ![]()
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