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This document presents evidence about if there should be missionary schools in Africa or not. This source is relevant to the novel because Nettie writes a letter to Celie saying that she met a couple, Corrine and Samuel, who are a part of a…

“It has its own churches, social and civic centers, shops, theaters and other places of amusement. And it contains more Negroes to the square mile than any other spot on earth. A stranger who rides up magnificent Seventh Avenue on a bus or in an…

The image depicts three women tending to the fields, and a lone man . It is counter-intuitive to think that the women would be doing the harder, manual labor, but this was common during this era for African Americans. We saw this frequently during…

So I had to find something for the jukejoint but in my mind, I compared the jukejoint to a cabaret. A less "classy" version of a cabaret though. I did try to find something for jukejoint on the American Periodicals but nothing was coming up that…

This primary source talks about the terrible conditions in Georgia prisons for women. It also states, "If the convict be a female, the judge may, in his discretion, sentence her to labor and confinement in the women's prison on the State farm..." How…

This article talks about one of the poorest villages in Africa. It explain how missionaries helped bring life back to this village. The Wisconsin delegation covered hundreds of miles of back roads, visiting missions, schools and churches, attending…

The building in this photo is of a praise house in Georgia in 1939, around the time of The Color Purple’s time period. Praise houses were typically one-room buildings, no more than 10 by 15 feet wide. This building has no more than four walls, a…

This image is a picture of what Main Street in Macon Georgia would’ve looked like around the time of Color Purple. One of the places in the book where main street is mention is on Page. 192 Specifically it says "Remember the main street of town? I…

In the novel, The Color Purple, rubber plantations are a main concern for those living in Africa. The rubber plantations were a way for big businesses to make a lot of money, but this was at the expense of the villagers in Africa. In the novel,…

This photo of a farmhouse in Georgia depicts an image of what Mr. ___'s house may have looked like in "The Color Purple." African Americans living in Georgia in this time period tended to live in smaller houses since they did not have a lot of money.…