Great activism among African Americans

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Morrison began writing Sula in 1969, a time of great activism among African Americans and others who were
working toward equal civil rights and opportunities. The book addresses issues of racism, bigotry, and
suppression of African Americans; it depicts the despair people feel when they can’t get decent jobs, and the
determination of some to survive. Eva, for example, cuts off her leg in order to get money to raise her family.
Morrison shows how, faced with racist situations, some people had to grovel to whites simply to get by, as
Helene does on a train heading through the South. Others, however, fought back, as Sula does when she
threatens some white boys who are harassing her and Nel.
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Option 2
In 1993, Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, and thus became the first African American and
only the eighth woman ever to win the award. According to Maureen O’Brien in Publishers Weekly, Morrison
said, “What is most wonderful for me personally is to know that the Prize has at last been awarded to an
African American. I thank God that my mother is alive to see this day.” In 1996, she received the National Book
Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
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