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WHO WAS?

Who Was Maya Angelou?

Ellen Labrecque, Dede Putra, Nancy Harrison

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780448488530
Published:
01 Mar 2016
Publisher:
Penguin
Dimensions:
112 pages - 193 x 135 x 10mm
Series:
WHO WAS?

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 became the first black - and first female - streetcar operator before following her interest in dance. She became a professional performer in her twenties and toured the U.S. and Europe as an opera star and calypso dancer. But Angelou’s writing became her defining talent. Her poems and books, including I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, brought her international acclaim.

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