Although she is an influential American poet, she is most known for her seven autobiographies. Angelou was active in the civil rights movement and worked side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. ... In the sixties she was heavily involved in the civil rights movement and began to form organizations with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.; both men were assassinated before the groups officially formed. She wrote her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, in 1969. The autobiography tells the story of her life up to the age of seventeen, and it brought her inter...

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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. ... There have been some critics that have labeled them as autobiographies. ... Angelou was known for her autobiographies and her well-written poems (http://mayaangelou.com/bio/ ). ...

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Throughout her life, Maya kept a journal of her life experiences and began taking those thoughts, writing a series of autobiographies. ... The fifth autobiography All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, published in 1986 was dedicated to Julian Mayfield and Malcolm X. ...

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(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. ... She was proud to be introduced to entertainers, actors, singers and activists such as Malcolm X and Dr. ...

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