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Maya Angelou Research Paper

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Maya Angelou was a very soulful and light person. She always looked content but there were periods in her life where things didn’t go as planned. She was born on April 4th 1928, In St. Louis Missouri the state of the Norton grape. When she was three she was sent to live with her grandma in Stamps, Arkansas. Annie (her grandmother owned the town’s only black owned convenience store. Since Arkansas is a southern state, Maya, her grandmother and her brother Bailey Jr. were subjected to discrimination and isolation. This also came along with economic hardships, murderous hate, and being pushed down by society every day. In 1940 Angelou graduated from the last year of middle school with honors at Lafayette Country Training School. The next
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