Maya Angelou Flashcards
L’année de naissance et le lieu ? ?
1928 in Missouri
She was the first?
Black cable car conductor in the US
Before becoming a professional writer she …
Worked as a cook.
Actress
A dancer
A singer
And journalist
In 1960s?
She was active in the civil rights movement and close to Martin Luther King.
She was close to Malcolm X too
She helped Malcolm X for?
Create his new civil rights organisation
OAAU ?
Organisation for African-American unity
How many volumes have autobiography series contains ?
6 volumes
Popular for her autobiography
The name of the first one (autobiography)
I know why the caged bird sings 1969
I know why the caged bird sings?
Brought her international recognition. it focused in her childhood after her parent’s divorce and during the era of Jim Crow.
In 1970s?
She is one of the representatives of the movement known as the black woman’s Renaissance.
Spokenperson for the cause..?
Of black American woman who suffered from sexism and racism through her poems such as “still I rise” and “phenomenal women”