Who Was Maya Angelou?
Penguin Workshop
ISBN13:
9780448488530
$8.72
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.
- | Author: Ellen Labrecque
- | Publisher: Penguin Workshop
- | Publication Date: January 12, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 112 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 0448488531
- | ISBN-13: 9780448488530
- Author:
- Ellen Labrecque
- Publisher:
- Penguin Workshop
- Publication Date:
- January 12, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 112 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0448488531
- ISBN-13:
- 9780448488530