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Birth
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expanded her talents to singer and actress
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MLK requested Maya led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Lived in Cairo
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Published I know why the caged birds sing
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appointed to Presidential Commission for International Women’s Year
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Worked with Oprah Winfrey in the Civil Rights Movement
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Reynolds Professor of American Studies At Wake Forest
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Earned Langston Hughes Medal
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Delivered her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” and President Bill Clinton’s inauguration
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Worked with Bill Clinton in the Civil Rights Movement
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Earned National Medal of Arts
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Earned Presidential Medal of Freedom