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==Early life and education== Born '''Rebecca Leventhal''' in 1969 in [[Jackson, Mississippi]], she is the daughter of [[Alice Walker]], an African-American writer whose work includes ''[[The Color Purple]]'', and [[Melvyn R. Leventhal]], a [[Jewish American]] civil rights lawyer. Her parents married in New York before going to Mississippi to work in civil rights.<ref name="Walker1">{{cite news|last=Ross|first=Ross|title=Rebecca Walker bringing message to Expo|work=Pensacola News Journal|date=April 8, 2007|url=http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070408/NEWS01/704080331/1005|access-date=April 8, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705223230/http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20070408%2FNEWS01%2F704080331%2F1005|archive-date=July 5, 2007}}</ref> After her parents divorced in 1976, Walker spent her childhood alternating every two years between her father's home in the largely Jewish [[Riverdale, The Bronx|Riverdale]] section of [[the Bronx]] in New York City and her mother's largely African-American environment in San Francisco. Walker attended [[The Urban School of San Francisco]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 22, 2020 |title=Season's Greeting from All of Us at Urban |url=https://www.urbanschool.org/cf_enotify/view.cfm?n=4487 |access-date=July 11, 2022 |series=Blues Notes |publisher=Urban School Alumni Association}}</ref> When she was 15, she decided to change her surname from Leventhal to Walker, her mother's surname.<ref name="NYT">{{Cite web|last=Rosenbloom|first=Stephanie|date=March 18, 2007|title=Evolution of a Feminist Daughter|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/fashion/18walker.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214231451/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/fashion/18walker.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all|archive-date=February 14, 2017|access-date=April 7, 2011|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> After high school, she studied at [[Yale University]], where she graduated ''[[cum laude]]'' in 1992. Walker identifies as Jewish, White and Black; her 2000 memoir is titled ''[[Black, White, and Jewish|Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Walker|first=Rebecca|title=Black, White, and Jewish: Autiobiography of a Shifting Self|publisher=Riverhead Books|year=2000|isbn=9781573221696}}</ref>
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