The respectable Establishment will mark her passing as a poet, writer and broadcaster but will be less keen to celebrate her record as an early and fierce civil rights ... Angelou, always an ...

the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Lives Matter movement. You can connect it with figures in Black history that relate ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Maya Angelou, an icon of American literature ... a pivotal era in the civil rights movement. In this book, she becomes more politically involved, working alongside key figures ...

Maya Angelou achieved ... celebrating it In early 1968, Angelou had promised Martin Luther King Jr. she would help him raise money to fund a civil rights march. But she postponed the trip until ...

Even before the 9-foot-tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou was lifted into place ... Black female streetcar conductor. A lifelong civil rights activist, she was awarded the Presidential ...