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May 28, 2014 · Maya Angelou had an incredible life, and Wednesday's Google Doodle celebrates it. Angelou is now known as a world-famous author and poet who published seven autobiographies and several books of ...
Maya Angelou (Bio | Poems), born in 1928, lived through some of the worst oppression and inequality for African American people.Although slavery had been long abolished, Angelou saw its effects on society and the African-American people.
May 28, 2014 · Charismatic and passionate warm and wise, formidable without being forbidding, American author and poet Maya Angelou, who has died aged 86, was a role model and an activist who recorded and ...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was not just a poet, of course: she was an influential civil rights campaigner in the United States, and her autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, is a classic of the genre.
May 28, 2014 · American poet, memoirist, and actress Maya Angelou explored the themes of economic, racial, and sexual oppression throughout her several volumes of autobiography, including her first autobiographical work, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969). Her poetry was collected in such volumes as "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie" (1971), "And Still I Rise" (1978), and "I Shall Not ...
Aug 31, 2010 · Poet, author, and professor Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Bailey and Vivian Baxter Johnson. Angelou’s older brother, Bailey Jr., nicknamed her “Maya” when they were children.
May 28, 2014 · Poet, performer and political activist Maya Angelou has died after a long illness at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C. She was 86. Born in St. Louis in 1928, Angelou grew up in a segregated society ...
