It is considered an important work for giving a personal voice to African American women. In the late 1960s, she published an influential autobiography, which spoke of her experiences growing up: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). She was devastated after both King and Malcolm X were assassinated in the late 1960s. With Malcolm X, she helped to form the new Organization of African American Unity. She was the northern leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In the 1960s, she was active in the civil rights movement, coming into contact with both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. “Her genius as a writer is her ability to recapture the texture of the way of life in the texture of its idioms, its idiosyncratic vocabulary and especially in its process of image-making.” As Sidonie Ann Smith states from Southern Humanities Review: The popularity of Maya Angelou has in large part been due to her ability to write about the many experiences of life with a vivid and engaging style that absorbs the reader. She wrote several prize-winning documentaries such as Afro-Americans in the Arts.
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She was asked to work on behalf of Presidents Carter (National Commission on the observance of International Women’s Year) and President Ford (American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council).Īs well as being a poet and writer, Maya Angelou had a productive career in TV and film. However, in the 1960s she returned to America and played a role in the civil rights movement. Maya Angelou married a South African freedom fighter and for a time lived in Cairo where she was the editor of the Arab Observer. Maya Angelou said that “The honorary duty of a human being is to love.” I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings was also nominated for the National Book Award.ĭespite the inequities of her life as a child, Maya Angelou was able to provide a positive message of humanity and hope. This book is a collection of stories from her childhood, and this book made her one of the first African-American women to reach the bestsellers list. Maya Angelou had a turbulent childhood, but she was able to retell her experiences with great poignancy and effect in her book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (1969). Maya Angelou (original name Marguerite Johnson) was born April 4, 1928, in St Louis, Missouri. – Maya Angelou from ‘Still I rise’ Short biography Maya Angelou Maya Angelou also achieved much in the fields of theatre, acting, writing novels and also as a member of the Civil Rights movement. Maya Angelou is one of America’s leading female contemporary poets. Maya Angelou (1928–2014) was a modern American poet and writer.
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