How Alice Walker’s Secret Grave Hunting Obsession Changed Black History

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🗓️ 14 June 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Alice Walker is a renowned author. She’s also a grave hunter. In the 1970s, she set out to discover the final resting place of a long lost voice of authentic Blackness. What she found changed history forever.
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0:00.0	The Monopoly game at McDonald's is back.
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0:20.0	Alice Walker is a renowned author.
0:23.1	She's also a grave hunter.
0:25.7	In the 1970s, she set out to discover the final resting place of a long-lost voice of
0:31.2	authentic blackness.
0:33.5	What she found changed history forever.
0:37.1	This is two-minute black history.
0:39.0	What You Didn't Learn in school.
0:46.6	Alice Walker is famous for The Color Purple.
0:50.1	But here's a little known fact about the author who gave us the line,
0:53.7	You told Harble to Beat Me.
0:56.8	Alice Walker was a grave hunter.
1:00.4	Walker read Zorniel Hurston's classic,
1:03.5	Their eyes were watching God,
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