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=**Maya Angelou**=

Maya Angelou More Than a Poet, by Elaine Lisandrelli. Maya Angelou is a African American who has written many books and poems. She is a poet, Historian, best selling author, educator, actress, playwrite, civil rights activists, producer, and, director. She travels the world spreading her wisdom adn knowledge. She is an amazing role model and someone that everyone can look up to.

Maya Angelou is a huge civil rights movement activist. She worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His assassination dreadfully fell on her birthday April 4th. This left her absolutley devastated. She was very good friends with Dr. King he requested that Angelou serve as Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, tells about her life adn how everything happened in her life. Her Book was published in 1970 adn was a huge popular sucess.

Maya Angelou has been invited by successive Presidents of the United States to serve in various capacities. President Ford appointed her to the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. President Carter invited her to serve on the Presidential Commission for the International Year of the Woman. President Clinton requested taht she write a poem to read at his inauguration in 1993. She wrote a poem for him called "On the Pulse of The Morning", was broadcasted live all over the world. She also wrote a screeenplay called Goergia, Goergia in 1972. Her screenplay, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

When Maya Angelou was in high school she won a scholarship to study dance adn drama at San Fransico's Labor School. While she was there she some how got inspired to go into political activism. She dropped out of school in her teens to become San Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor. She later rejoined high school and graduated and then left home at the age of 16 and supported heself by working as a waitress and cook. She never could leave behind her talents for dance, music, performance, and poetry. In 1952 she married a Greek sailor named Tosh Angelos. When she began her career as a nightclub singer, she took the professional name Maya Angelou, combining her childhood nickname with a form of her husband's name. Although the marriage did not last, her performing career flourished.

Throughout Maya Angelou's life I admire when she moved to New York in the 1950's. She composed song lyrics and poems for many years. When she moved to New York she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and took her place among the growing number of young black writers and artists associated with the Civil Rights Movement. She acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's //The Blacks// and wrote and performed a //Cabaret for Freedom// with the actor and comedian Godfrey Cambridge. In New York, she fell in love with the South African civil rights activist Vusumzi Make and in 1960, the couple moved, to Cairo, Egypt.

I think that my book does give alot of valid information about Maya Angelou. Although I got some of my information from the internet I still got alot from the book. The book tells about her life time and the events that took place in her life. It also tells all about the books that she has written. Over all I tihnk that my book give a very honest adn true review of Maya Angelou. media type="youtube" key="HDtw62Ah2zY&rel=1" height="355" width="425"