Maya+Angelou

Maya Angelou was born in 1928 with the name Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, was raised in Stamps. Maya wrote an autobiography, about her growing up while the Civil Rights Movement was going on. The autobiography was named I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. In 1993 Maya read a poem to the Presidential Inauguration of Bill Clinton that she wrote for the occasion. Maya was an awesome poet, and a award winning writer, a journalist, an activist, a performer, a dancer, a three time grammy winner for her autobiographical spoken word recordings.  In 1959, at the request of Dr. King she became a northern coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 1961 – 1962 she was an Associate editor of The Arab Observer in Cairo, Egypt, the only English – Language news weekly in the Middle East by, Shelby Croniser