Who was Maya Angelou? by Ellen Labrecque Portuguese

Who was Maya Angelou? by Ellen Labrecque PortugueseA young girl whose grandmother sometimes called her little professor An actress and calypso dancer who toured the world with a traveling opera One of the most celebrated poets of all time 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.

“This is a fantastic

As vivid as the day it was first published

Did Mandela work for nothing

part narrative documentary

his country's most turbulent period

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she has survived greater challenges: the untimely death of her brillliant artist mother

Can their trip be saved

sidebars and points of interest

A play about Rhodes and the Anglo-Boer War

and Rorke's Drift

her Gogo tells her a magical family tale inspired by the folklore of the magical cracked clay pot