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Maya Angelou (April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014) became the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco, California, in the 1940s. Maya Angelou's 1969 autobiography, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, is the first nonfiction bestseller by an African American woman. Maya Angelou recited one of her poems at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural ceremony marking the first inaugural recitation since 1961. Maya Angelou was lauded in 1995 for her record-setting, two-year run on The New York Times' paperback nonfiction bestseller list. Maya Angelou is the first African American woman to have her screenplay produced, for the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia. MLK Jr. was assassinated on his friend Maya Angelou's birthday (April 4) in 1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward. In 1952, Maya Angelou married a Greek sailor named Anastasios Angelopoulos, from whom she took her professional name.
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The Life of Maya Angelou: The Biography of a Civil Rights Activist, Poet and Award-Winning Author
DISCOVER THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF MAYA ANGELOU WITH A HIGHLY PERSONAL AND DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HER CHALLENGES AND TRIUMPHS
Written with an emphasis on accessibility, the author avoids critical theory and focuses on Maya Angelou's growth as a person and writer as well as the ways in which her life influenced her work. This new biography tells the story of a young black woman who overcomes poverty and endemic structural and personal obstacles to lead an accomplished life.
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