Maya Angelou
A poet, an author, a play-write, an actress, a mother, a civil-rights activists, historian and most important a survivor. Perhaps Maya Angelou, award winning author of many books is one of the most influential African Americans in American history. I believe that she rates at the top of the list of American authors, with Hemingway, Hawthorne, and Voight. I believe through my research and reading of Maya Angelou that she should be among the members of The American Authors Hall of Fame. Maya was born on, April 4th, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson, in St. Louis Missouri. She was raised in Stamps Arkansas, by her Grandmother Annie Henderson and Her Uncle Willie. Stamps was a rural segregated community. However, it was tight knit between the African Americans.Maya grew up during a very difficult time period in American history. They were just recovering from the Great Depression, and learning how to deal with different races of people. Maya knew this and made it "It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should be dead. I
" (Angelou, Caged Bird) Page 2 Grandma Henderson was a very religious person, and a key factor in Maya's upbringing. she acted just as refined as the white folks. as with the rest of the people of Stamps. As stated above, I believe that the racial issues that Maya encountered during her childhood as well as her adult life, have greatly affected Maya's writings, and feelings. I hope other people have the chance to read and appreciate Maya, the way the I and others have. The automobile is also a very essential tool that was being perfected in Maya's time. They both had similar views in civil rights, during the time period that Maya started writing. Here she felt that it didn't matter if she was black, because everybody else was. She also knew, and helped out Malcolm X.
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