Maya Angelou Maya Angelou paved the way for many of today’s black poets. She is famous for her poems and series of autobiographies. Angelou has had an interesting life filled with many accomplishments. Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4‚ 1928‚ in St. Louis‚ Missouri. (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ 2nd Ed.) Her parents divorced when she was 3‚ she then lived with her mother. (Shaw‚ Taylor) At age 8 her mother’s boyfriend‚ Mr. Freeman‚ raped her. Angelou hid her dirty
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Rights Movement. He was born January 15th‚ 1929 in Atlanta Georgia and was killed April 6th‚ 1968 in Memphis Tennessee. The Letter from Birmingham was written on April 16‚ 1963. King was in Birmingham because he was president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and they were asked to help direct a nonviolent program for civil rights. The letter was a response to a letter written by clergymen who stated Martin Luther King’s actions in Birmingham Alabama where “unwise and untimely”. King started
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Purple Onion Club‚ in San Francisco. She later began to write lyrics that turned into poetry‚ and short stories. She then moved to New York to join the Harlem Writers Guild. In 1960‚ she becomes the Northeaster Regional Coordinator for Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Appears in off-Broadway play‚ "The Blacks"‚ produced as a benefit for the SCLC. She marries her second husband‚ South African freedom fighter Vusumi Make‚ and moves to Africa with he and her son Guy in 1962. While in Africa
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As a teenager‚ Maya Angelou was driven to succeed in all aspects of her life which began with her move to San Francisco after winning a scholarship at San Francisco’s Labor School in 1942 (Wagner-Martin‚ 12). Later in her life at the age of 16‚ Angelou decided that she wanted to become a streetcar conductor. Determined to get the job Angelou visited Muni’s personnel department with the intention of placing an application--but was denied even receiving one. When asked by her mother why she did not
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Taylor 1 Rough Draft Thesis: Martin Luther King was a leader that was born in a segregated world but was determine to change it so everyone live in a equal nation. And he did this by his words and action that don’t need any bloodshed. He used brain over bronze to accomplish what he set out to do. Martin Luther King jr. was as born as a middle child in Atlanta Georgia in January 15th 1929 into a family which was actively involved in the civil right movement. Martin father and grandfather was
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chance of defense. We should be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead‚ one on top of each other. A pyramid of flesh with the whit folks on the bottom‚ . . . and then the Negro ’s." (Angelou Caged Bird 153) "If growing up was painful for the Southern Black Girl‚ being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat." (Angelou‚ Caged Bird) Little 2 Grandma Henderson was a very religious person‚ and a key factor in Maya ’s upbringing. as
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influenced by the view which argues against outsider coming in.”(Bloom‚ Smith 495) By using an ethical appeal Dr. King begins to justify his presence by assuring the clergymen that he was invited because of his organizational ties with the Southern Christian Leadership‚ in which he serves as president. He also goes on to say‚” but more basically‚ I am here in Birmingham because injustice is here.” (Bloom‚ Smith 495) It was important for Marti Luther King to say this because it supported the fact that
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History has created an idealized representation of the Civil Rights movement as being a grand movement of the entire black society coming together to show the world they want to be recognized for having basic human rights. This romanticized ideology of the Civil Rights movement is lovely in theory‚ however‚ it is one that is very dangerous to the fight that still exist today for black rights. According to Tommie Shelby in his book We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity
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Josephine Baker was born in Virginia‚ and at the age of seven Ella Baker moved with her family to Littleton‚ South Carolina‚ where they settled on her grandparent’s farmland her grandparents had worked as slaves. Ella Baker’s early life was steeped in Southern black culture. Her most vivid childhood memories were of the strong traditions of self-help‚ mutual cooperation‚ and sharing of economic resources that encompassed her entire community. Because there was no local secondary school‚ in 1918‚ when
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the 1950s‚ he started to add some of the traits of early rockers like Little Richard to his performance. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.‚ In 1969 B.B played an all-night blues benefit‚ that raised money for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference with fellow artist Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy. Near the end of the 1960’s he made another musical mile stone by touring in Europe. In no time‚ B.B was playing concerts with bands such as Led Zeppelin‚ Black Sabbath‚ and Santana
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