TIBH: Toni Morrison

On this date in 1988 Ohio native Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel Beloved. The book would later become a movie in 1998 staring Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover.

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city."

-Toni Morrison