Maya Angelou was a poet, memoirist, civil rights activist, and one of the most towering literary figures of the twentieth century - whose words continue to shape how the world thinks about race, ...
Her landmark book “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” was among the first 20th-century autobiographies of a Black woman to reach a wide readership. Maya Angelou in 1974.Credit...Wayne Miller/Magnum ...