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Maya Angelou memoir on political awakening

April 27, 2014 by Valyruh Leave a Comment

This is the fourth of seven memoirs written by Maya Angelou, and it covers the period from 1957 and 1962, shortly before her departure from California with her young son Guy in tow. Maya ends up in New York City, where she enters the society of black musicians, actors, artists, writers, political activists, and discovers new depths within herself as she joins the Harlem Writers Guild along such luminaries as James Baldwin, writes for and performs on stage, becomes northern coordinator for Martin Luther King’s […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #memoir, civil rights, Maya Angelou

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:26 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: #memoir, civil rights, Maya Angelou ·
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Don’t let my obsession with equality turn you off of a really sweet book.

January 13, 2014 by Robyn Robotron 1 Comment

  All of my posts are missing most of what I wrote, and I can’t remember what I said at the time.  Here’s the link to my review.

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, civil rights, Fannie Flagg, feminism, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, LGBTQ, Racism, Robyn Robotron

Robyn Robotron's CBR6 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, civil rights, Fannie Flagg, feminism, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, LGBTQ, Racism, Robyn Robotron ·
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