Maya Angelou's Accomplishments

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The First Lady and wife of President Franklin Roosevelt. She spent her adult years working in politics and social reform. Her warmth and compassion inspired the nation, and she later became U.S. Delegate to the United Nations. The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights was largely her work, and she chaired the first-ever Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in 1961. She joined the League of Women Voters, worked with trade union women, and pressed for women’s causes within the Democratic Party. After her husband, Franklin Roosevelt was paralyzed by polio in 1921, her public activities expanded. She became his political “eyes and ears”, working as the medium between the public and the president. After
She was an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson, Angelou had a difficult childhood that later became the inspiration for many of her autobiographies. Angelou’s early career was in the theater, and she co-wrote Cabaret for Freedom to raise funds for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, for which she was named northern coordinator by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Already a member of the Harlem Writer’s Guild, she used her talents as a writer becoming an avid Civil Rights Activist, working closely with both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Her contributions to the Civil Rights Movement were only a small start to her many accomplishments to
A Shoshone woman who served as a guide to Lewis and Clark during their exploration of the American West, Sacagawea was an instrumental part in the success of this historical Expedition. She was skilled at finding food and clean water to drink. When a boat she was riding on got turned over, she was able to save some of its cargo, including important documents and supplies. She also served as a symbol of peace because a group traveling with a woman and a child were considered less suspicion than a group of men alone. Sacagawea also made a miraculous discovery during the trip west. When they encountered a group of Shoshone Indians, she realized that its leader was actually her brother Cameahwait. It was through her that the expedition was able to buy horses from the Shoshone to cross the Rocky Mountains. Despite having been reunited with her family, she decided to continue on the expedition leading them to their successful findings of a water route connecting the Columbia and Missouri Rivers, allowing ports to open in the uncharted western