Maya Angelou Flashcards

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1
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L’année de naissance et le lieu ? ?

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1928 in Missouri

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2
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She was the first?

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Black cable car conductor in the US

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Before becoming a professional writer she …

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Worked as a cook.
Actress
A dancer
A singer
And journalist

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In 1960s?

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She was active in the civil rights movement and close to Martin Luther King.
She was close to Malcolm X too

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5
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She helped Malcolm X for?

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Create his new civil rights organisation

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OAAU ?

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Organisation for African-American unity

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7
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How many volumes have autobiography series contains ?

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6 volumes
Popular for her autobiography

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The name of the first one (autobiography)

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I know why the caged bird sings 1969

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I know why the caged bird sings?

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Brought her international recognition. it focused in her childhood after her parent’s divorce and during the era of Jim Crow.

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In 1970s?

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She is one of the representatives of the movement known as the black woman’s Renaissance.

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Spokenperson for the cause..?

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Of black American woman who suffered from sexism and racism through her poems such as “still I rise” and “phenomenal women”

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