Maya Angelou writes on her experience living in Southern rural then in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the book is a heartwarming yet tragic story of her life from birth to young adulthood. She grew in unstable home environment, moving between her grandmother, father, and mother with her ... confinement as a result of oppression and racism, book contains a sequence of lesson on how to resist oppression. Maya eventually broke the race barrier, became the first black streetcar operator in San Francisco, and assertively responded to her white employer and embraced racial identity and shed off se...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... always be black and can find a way to succeed in a world full of prejudice. The best example of this is her dream in becoming the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco. "Attaining the street-car conductor's job becomes not only a victory for civil rights, as a result, but also a personal victory for Maya's sense of self" (Walker). Through experience, Angelou ... ...

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... than ... 'the dogs of society.' Another side of racism in America is recurring anti-immigrant sentiment. Anger towards immigrants was so strong in recession-weary California in 1994 that the San Francisco Chronicle, in a special report, described it as "unprecedented in California history." Critics of immigration, who argue that immigrants cause the loss of jobs to American citizens, acknowledge the impact of ... ...

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... more popular the alternatives became. The lesson was learned in 1955 when a little known poet named Alan Ginsberg was scheduled to read his poem HOWL at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Captain William Hanrahan of the SFPD busted up the reading, confiscated copies of the poem and arrested City Lights owner Lawrence Ferlinghetti for obscenity. Ironically, this made HOWL a best-seller ... ...

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