Research Paper On Maya Angelou

Background: Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, in her early days her parents split they got A divorce. Angelou experienced firsthand racial prejudices and discrimination in Arkansas. She also was raped at the age of seven, by her mother’s boyfriend Angelou moved to San Francisco, California, where she won a scholarship to study dance and acting at the California Labor School. Also during this time, Angelou became the first black female cable car conductor a job she kept to support her and her only son. As her life went on Maya became an actor, She landed a role in a production called of “Porgy and Bess”, later appearing in the off-Broadway production “Calypso Heat Wave” and releasing her first album, Miss Calypso also in 1957.
Addition to poetry: Along with soul and passion with her writing Maya Angelou added the problems of the world and her own problems to write about them and put them into a way that everyone could understand. Maya Angelou would be the first of many to write poems of and about the civil rights movement.

Her poetry: Maya Angelou was known best for her poetry and my favorite poem would have to be still I rise, and I really enjoy this poem because it’s describing the hardships of the black people's hardships and how we still stand after all the adversity and horrible things that has happened to us.

“ Still I Rise “ You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I’ll