Editing Alice Walker (section)

== Teaching and Feminist Rights Movement ==
Aside from her civil rights activism, Walker would often educate others about the Black feminist movement through her teachings at several different higher education institutions. In the fall of 1972, Walker taught a course in Black Women's Writers at the [[University of Massachusetts Boston]].<ref>[https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/vof/transcripts/Smith.pdf "Voices of Feminism Oral History Project"]. [[Barbara Smith]] interviewed by [[Loretta Ross|Loretta L. Ross]], May 7–8, 2003, p. 50. Retrieved July 19, 2017</ref> as well as [[Wellesley College]] in 1973. Moreover, that same year, she also published her primary collection of short stories ''In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women,'' as well as ''Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems'' which served as a second volume of her poetry. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Farell |first=Susan |date=2007 |title=Fight Vs. Flight: A Re-Evaluation of Dee in Alice Walker's "Everyday Use" |url= |journal=Studies in Short Fiction |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=179–186 |publisher=Gale}}</ref> In addition, she also taught an American Women studies class at [[Brandeis University]] in Waltham. Aside from the schools in Massachusetts at which she taught at, she gave several lectures on the topics of African-American Women Studies at [[Yale University]] as well as [[University of California, Berkeley]]. Overall, Walker gave several lectures at a variety of different institutions throughout America which allowed her to spread the ideas of the Black feminist movement. <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Felipe |date=1992 |title=Alice Walker's Redemptive Art |url= |journal=African American Review |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=437–451|doi=10.2307/3041916 |jstor=3041916 }}</ref>