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 a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMA It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of c the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angel to 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 exciting tragic political period. She writes of Jimmy Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as America's most impressive memoir writers
