... many different languages, including, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and the West African language Fanti. While she was studying in Ghana she met with Malcolm X and from there on she helped him build his organization. When she came back from Ghana to the U.S, Malcolm X was assassinated and the organization she was helping him build faded away. Not only did she meet and helped ... Malcolm X, but she became the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr. Martin Luther King asked her to serve for this conference. Dr ... work has been identified as autobiogr...

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... , activists and political leaders. During a month-long trip to India in 1959, he had the opportunity to meet family members and followers of Gandhi, the man he described in his autobiography as "the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change." King also authored several books and articles during this time (Homer Bigarts, 1968). In 1960 King and ... , King faced mounting criticism from young African-American activists who favored a more confrontational approach to seeking change. These young radicals stuck closer to the ideals of the black nationalist leader Malcolm X (hi...

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... only place for a black writer to be in the 1950's and 1960's. It was the time of the Civil Right Movement in America. (King, 1994) Maya Angelou wrote her first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a memoir of her childhood and young adult period, in 1969, toward the end of the Civil Right Movement. For the first time in history ... , and putting on shows, such as Cabaret for Freedom to strive for equality among the nation. She was proud to be introduced to entertainers, actors, singers and activists such as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King. (King, 1994) Most of Maya Angelou...

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... , and her own writing. It also tells the story about how she met her goof friend Bill Holiday in the 1950s. The fifth autobiography All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986 was dedicated to Julian Mayfield and Malcolm X. This book covers her and her son's four-year stay in Ghana. It was during this time that Maya was a professor at ... ...

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