Historical Being Black in America Maya Angelou, an African American essayist, extraordinarily performing artist, and an amazing writer, also arguably the best novelist ever lived, who was the component artist at President Bill Clinton's 1993 inauguration, where she recited her poem On the Pulse of Morning ("Introduction"). Abundance influence and inspiration behind Maya Angelou's work has really solidifies her profile as one of the best African American writers of all time. She was an excellent teacher, who held positions at several Universities, including the university of California and university of Kansas. She also
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Subsequently, she dropped out of secondary school, she later came back to secondary school and got pregnant with her first child, she conceived an offspring at sixteen years old named Guy Johnson. In the process of making ends meet, she took diverse employments which incorporates; a secretary, server, and bar keeper. At age 22, she married Tosh Angelou her first spouse, after a year they were separated. In 1961 she moved to Africa, she spent the following five long years over in Egypt and Ghana, filling in as a writer and a college educator. Maya Angelou came back to the United States, and joined the Harlem Writers Guild. Angelou's tutor James Baldwin an editorial manager at Random House was inspired by her verse and biography and later persuaded her to think about writing a memoir. The outcome was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which became a household name and was distributed in the year 1970 ("Appiah and …show more content…
Maturation of Angelou came with lots of processes and self reliant attitude, which made her title her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "Caged birds" is an example of an unstructured verse which allows Angelou to write freely from her mind expressing in details her encounter with racial discrimination and prejudice in racially segregated south in the1940's, she mostly remembered that her growing up was full of pain and hardship. Description of free birds by Angelou brings to mind, the idea that free birds are ten times more able to enjoy the breeze, the trees, the lawn, the sky, and the fat worms ("Introduction"). Civil Right Act of 1866, the very first congress legislated law which brought about also the very first impeachment of an American President Andrew Johnson, was the law that set all slaves free, and also gave them the right and privileges of a white citizen, except the right to vote which was later added to the law, prior to the law, African American were brought to the United State to be slaves for white people, they were discriminated upon, could not enjoy the same privileges as white people, they were treated as though they were caused or being black was a crime. Amid 1940's, discrimination, prejudice and injustice were so rampant, one of Angelou's experience of discrimination was when she living with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, and she had to work for a white lady by the name Mrs. Viola Cullinan who changed
Subsequently, she dropped out of secondary school, she later came back to secondary school and got pregnant with her first child, she conceived an offspring at sixteen years old named Guy Johnson. In the process of making ends meet, she took diverse employments which incorporates; a secretary, server, and bar keeper. At age 22, she married Tosh Angelou her first spouse, after a year they were separated. In 1961 she moved to Africa, she spent the following five long years over in Egypt and Ghana, filling in as a writer and a college educator. Maya Angelou came back to the United States, and joined the Harlem Writers Guild. Angelou's tutor James Baldwin an editorial manager at Random House was inspired by her verse and biography and later persuaded her to think about writing a memoir. The outcome was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which became a household name and was distributed in the year 1970 ("Appiah and …show more content…
Maturation of Angelou came with lots of processes and self reliant attitude, which made her title her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, "Caged birds" is an example of an unstructured verse which allows Angelou to write freely from her mind expressing in details her encounter with racial discrimination and prejudice in racially segregated south in the1940's, she mostly remembered that her growing up was full of pain and hardship. Description of free birds by Angelou brings to mind, the idea that free birds are ten times more able to enjoy the breeze, the trees, the lawn, the sky, and the fat worms ("Introduction"). Civil Right Act of 1866, the very first congress legislated law which brought about also the very first impeachment of an American President Andrew Johnson, was the law that set all slaves free, and also gave them the right and privileges of a white citizen, except the right to vote which was later added to the law, prior to the law, African American were brought to the United State to be slaves for white people, they were discriminated upon, could not enjoy the same privileges as white people, they were treated as though they were caused or being black was a crime. Amid 1940's, discrimination, prejudice and injustice were so rampant, one of Angelou's experience of discrimination was when she living with her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, and she had to work for a white lady by the name Mrs. Viola Cullinan who changed