- African American women civil rights workers, Biography, American Authors, African American women authors
"A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Maya Angelou
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 212
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Listening Library, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780748122394
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Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, prostitute, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actor, writer, director
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