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Maya Angelou was an African-American poet and Civil's Right activist. Her memoir was one of the best-selling nonfiction by a black woman.

She is important because she has over 36 award-winning books and over 50 honorary titles. She wrote about controversial things, like race relationships in America. This even caused some schools to ban her books.

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Maya Angelou was born in 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was active in the civil rights movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. But she published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969. Then she published "Caged Bird" in 1983. She has received more than fifty honorary degrees. Finally she is well known as a speaker and writer.

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