Weekend Glory By Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou an activist, poet, mother, and role model created vivid poetry that reflected a time in her life that was dark but strengthening. This poem is called, “ Weekend Glory, ” by Maya De Angelou. In this poem Maya, was speaking about her life , how she doesn’t have to be rich to live her life. She don’t have anybody to impress, she’s just living her life like everybody else. During the 1960’s-1970’s may marches, riots, and conflicts occurred. In 1960 four black college students sat in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter, protesting their denial of service. The Civil Rights march on Washington, D.C. for Jobs and freedom culminates with Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Also Martin Luther King speaks at a civil rights rally on the courthouse steps of the Alabama State Capitol, ending the Selma to Montgomery, Alabama march for voting rights. In 1970, Five members of the Chicago 7 are convicted of crossing state lines to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic Presidential Convention in Chicago.
Louis Missouri. She was an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet. During Maya childhood years, she was born as Marguerite Annie Johnson, her childhood was very exciting, fulfilling, and also tragic. Her parents had split up when she was very young. So her brother and her were sent to live with their father’s mother in Stamps, Arkansas. One day maya’s mother’s boyfriend came over and he ended up raping her at the age of 7. She told her brother about what had happened, and he told their uncle who had killed her mothers boyfriend right on the spot. Maya started to be quiet because she says it was her voice who killed him. She was silent for about seven years. After that had happened her and her brother returned back to their grandmothers house and lived with her for a while. They was also back and forward to their dads and mothers