Maya Angelou Research Paper

Maya Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928, in St.Louis, Missouri, in the United States.She was a famous poet, author, and playwright. Angelou was an important activist on behalf of black rights and feminism and occasionally appeared on TV and in Theater. Her first book, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", was published in 1969. It tells the story of her life Until age 17. In 1992, at Bill Clinton’s inauguration,She was the second female poet, and the first black poet who were ever chosen to read their poems at such an important event

Angelou’s life was not simple . She was born into a very poor family. Her parents divorced when she was 3,and her father sent Maya and her older brother to live with his mother. Four years later, her mother

Mrs.Bertha Flowers, her high-school teacher, and close family friend, was the one who helped her speak again, and who introduced her to the work of these writers. upon finishing school, Maya received a scholarship to study dance and drama, but she never used it. 3 weeks after completing school, she gave birth to her first son . She published her second autobiography, called “Gather Together in my Name”, at the end of the forties. In it, she described her early, difficult financial life. She worked in cleaning and cooking, and in the end, was the manager at a strip club, For this, she received a lot of criticism from fellow

He took her to Cairo, where she worked as an editor for an English-language newspaper. After separating from Make, she moved to Ghana, where she continued working as an editor,writer, actress, and activist. She met the American Black leader Malcolm X while he was on a visit and became close friends with him. She them returned to the United States to help him build a new Civil Rights organization, called: The Organization of Afro-American Unity. When Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965, she was traumatized. She arranged a march to be led by Martin Luther King Jr, but, when he was assassinated as well, she was devastated-again. The great Black writer James Baldwin helped her, and encouraged her to create again. According to one of her biographers, "If 1968 was a year of great pain, loss, and sadness, it was also the year when America first witnessed the breadth and depth of Maya Angelou's spirit and creative