African-American Civil Rights Movement

Selah H. 10.14.15 Maya Angelou Biography Maya Angelou was an inspiration to many people. She was mostly known for her autobiographies, poetry books, and standing up for womens’ and Africans’ rights. Maya was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928, and lived there until she was three years old. Her parents got divorced, forcing her and her brother to move to Stamps, Arkansas. Maya lived with her grandma, Annie Henderson, Uncle Willie, and her brother, Bailey Jr. Maya died on May 28, 2014.…

Breaking out of the cage Maya Angelou Maya had issues in her past that made her stronger and more powerful than she was before. For example, she was raped, had to deal with terrible racemes and had a baby at 16. Maya showed that she wasn’t going to let others bring her down and that made her writing better. She was called one of the greatest writers of her time. She was a great child of course but with any child she made mistakes. Maya Angelou, turned life struggles into life goals. She…

Poet and writer, Maya Angelou, in her non-fiction essay, “Graduation,” narrates gradua-tion day at Lafayette County Training School, a school of primarily African-American children. Changing tones throughout the essay, she goes from a giddy tone in the beginning when prepar-ing for the graduation, to a somber tone when an unexpected speaker comes, then to a vibrant tone in the end of the essay to stir up feelings of pride and motivation in those who may have al-so been discriminated against.…

Maya Angelou was a civil rights activist, writer and a poet. She was born April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She passed away on May 28, 2014 in Winston-Salem, NC. Her actual birth name was Marguerite Johnson. Pam Munoz Ryan was born December 25, 1951 in Bakersfield, Ca. She attended the San Diego University and is a writer. Pamela also teaches at an Oklahoma college. Maya Angelou and Pamela Munoz Ryan are an influence for many people. They are both very similar but different at the same…

Maya Angelou is a poet writer but she was also, an actor and singer. She was born on April 4, 1928 and died on May 28, 2014. Her full name was Marguerite Annie Johnson Angelou she was born in St, Louis, Missouri and she died Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She had one kid and two husbands. She lived in a good environment. Even though she had a hard early life her poems showed her inner strength in her. In 1961-1966 she wrote for newspapers in Egypt, Africa. Her life was good and wasn’t as bad…

Civil rights activist, Malcolm X, speaks to an audience of African Americans in his 1964 speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet.” Malcolm’s purpose was to increase the numbers in African American voting so that the nation could gain equality. He adopts a persuadable tone in order to make the Negroes act right and wisely. In the speech, “The Ballot or the Bullet,” the author, Malcolm X, encourages his audience to create equality by trusting the American democracy through the rhetorical elements of…

Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Johnson, is probably the most well-known poet of the past generation. Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived in Long Beach, California, but primarily grew up in Stamps, Arkansas, where she was raised by her grandmother (Biography, no p.). At an early age, Angelou already faced many hardships, including being sexually abused by her mother’s boyfriend, which rendered her mute for a portion of her childhood. Angelou used her life’s experiences, along with…

“A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry is a classic piece of the American Theater, which displays a variety of social and cultural problems in 1959 one of these was the residential segregation. The play 's setting is in Chicago during the hottest years of segregation in a poor neighborhood. The story revolves around an Afro-American working class family. Although they come from the same bloodline and background the members of this family are totally different. There are 5 principle…

WHO ACHIEVED MORE FOR BLACK AMERICANS, MARTIN LUTHER KING OR MALCOLM X? Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are the two most well-known, influential activists in the civil rights movement. Although they both fought for the same cause, during the same time, they had very different approaches towards the ways in which the civil rights’ movement was to succeed. They also held different principles and views about what an ideal, racially equal world would look like. Martin Luther King opted for the…

unalienable rights,” became the foundation of our independent nation in 1776. Abraham Lincoln reiterated this notion in his Gettysburg Address, stating the famous phrase, “Four score and seven years ago our father brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” However, in the 1950s, it wasn’t a rare sight to see separate bathrooms for the further segregation of blacks and whites (History.com Staff “Civil…