Maya Angelou died on 28 May 2014 in Winston-Salem, aged 86. An American poet, memoirist and civil rights activist, Angelou had a varied early life as a dancer, singer, actor and journalist. She worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in the civil rights struggle. Her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), about her childhood in Arkansas and California, was a landmark of American autobiography and the first of a series of seven. Her poetry includes Still I Rise, and she recited On the Pulse of Morning at Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993. She taught for years at Wake Forest University and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2010.
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