... taught and the University of Ghana. In the 1960's, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ms. Angelou became the coordinator of the Southern Christian leadership Conference. President Gerald Ford, to the Bicentennial Commission appointed her, and by President Jimmy Carter the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. Maya Angelou was among the first African-American women ... ...

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