Who was Maya Angelou?
Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of her situation and flourish. She moved to California and be...
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New York, New York :
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Who was Maya Angelou?
- Momma
- A child with no voice
- The California years
- A big break
- Becoming a writer
- Civil rights activist
- Home away from home
- Becoming a famous writer
- A hero to us all
- Timelines.
