A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved au I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend atruly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is onback home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of cthe civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelto be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily excitingtragic political period. She writes of Jimmy Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaverfriends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as America's most impressive memoir writers
