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Sister Maya Angelou joins the ancestors . . . Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 (NYTimes - May 28, 2014) EXCERPT: Maya Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” — which describes in lyrical, unsparing prose her childhood in the Jim Crow South — was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday in her home. She was 86 and lived in Winston-Salem, N.C. Her death was confirmed by her longtime literary agent, Helen Brann. No immediate cause of death had been determined, but Ms. Brann said Ms. Angelou had been in frail health for some time and had had heart problems.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 14:07:58 +0000

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