Biography
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
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How a Black girl in the Jim Crow South, silenced by trauma and racism, found language, dignity, and her own voice.
The first volume of Angelou's autobiography, covering her childhood between rural Arkansas and St. Louis, a traumatic assault at age eight, years of elective mutism, and her emergence into voice.
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