Maya Angelou
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, born April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis,
was raised in segregated rural Arkansas. She is a poet, historian, author,
actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, and director. She has been
working at Wake Forest University in north Carolina since 1981.She has
published ten best selling books and numerous magazine articles e ....
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.... Arkansas and San Francisco. She worked
as an editor for The Arab observer, an English-language weekly published
Cairo. Maya Angelou lived in Accra, Ghana, where Sergejs Golubevs under
the black nationalist regime of Karane Nkrumah she taught music, dance,
and studied cinematography in Sweden. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Ms Angelou became the northern coordinator for
the southern Leadership Conference. She Commis ....
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