![]() ![]() She had a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University of North Carolina. ![]() She wrote three collections of essays many volumes of poetry, including His Day is Done, a tribute to Nelson Mandela and two cookbooks. ![]() This was followed by six volumes of autobiography, the seventh and final volume, Mom & Me & Mom, published in 2013. She first thrilled the world with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969). In the Prologue, Angelou dedicates her letter to the daughter she never birthed but whom she sees in everyone. She wrote and performed a poem, 'On the Pulse of Morning', for President Clinton on his inauguration she was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama and was honoured by more than seventy universities throughout the world. Born 4 April 1928, she lived and chronicled an extraordinary life: rising from poverty, violence and racism, she became a renowned author, poet, playwright, civil rights' activist - working with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King - and memoirist. This article aims to elaborate Black feminist perspective toward women oppression in Maya Angelous memoir entitled A Letter To My Daughter. Dr Maya Angelou was one of the world's most important writers and activists. ![]()
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