as noted in Writer's Almanac (Garrison Keillor, American Public Media) --
April 4 is the birthday of Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri (1928). She was a dancer and actor, lived in the early 60s in Ghana as part of an African-American expat community, got involved in the civil rights movement, and wrote about it in her six-volume autobiography starting in 1970 with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
her personal website is www. mayaangelou . com/
"On the Pulse of the Morning" (Jan. 20, 1993 inaugural poem delivered at Washington, D.C.) -- YouTube video =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDtw62Ah2zY
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