Who was Maya Angelou?
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Who was Maya Angelou?
（Who HQ : your headquaters for history : who? what? where?, . The #1 New York Times best-selling series）
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House, c2016
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Chronologies: p. 102-103
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105)
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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.
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