Maya Angelou: Phenomenal Woman

The format of my paper will be MLA format, because as I advance in school and my scholar years MLA is really the only basic kind of format I have learned to write papers with and I am very comfortable with using it. I have also used APA format with a few subheadings just so the organization of my paper could flow better. The tone of my paper I would say is objective and personal. Objective being that this was information that I research and personal because I added my own thoughts. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is a poet and award-winning author known for her memoirs “I Know Why”, “Cage Bird Sings”, and amazing poems, one famously known worldwide as “Phenomenal Woman”. She is the
Martin Luther King Jr. had spoke at a church in Harlem in 1960, and after hearing him and being inspired by his message, she deiced to help the Southern Christian Leadership Conference raise funds, staging a “Cabaret for Freedom.” Sidney Poitier and others were in attendance. The revue had proved high success, and Angelou became the northern coordinator for the SCLC’S New York office. Later on she then became friends with Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965. When Malcolm was assassinated this was when Angelou created her famous memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” The movement has its background in the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. The African-American Civil Rights Movement was an ongoing fight for racial equality that took place over an actual 100 years. Angelou’s friend Martin Luther King, Jr., and others such as Booker T., and Rosa Park s paved the way for non-violent protests, which led to changes in law. In 1955, when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white passenger, this sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted for over a year and brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront of the