Maya Angelou uses her captivating childhood to entrance her readers into the life of a young black girl in the 1930s-1940s and she shows her life experiences of heartbreak, seperation, admiration and many other qualities to take us through her life in the small town of Stamps, Arkansas where she spent a portion of her life living with her emotionally strong and stern grandmother and her father like figure of an uncle. Later on …
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…of their own individual needs in America. The 20th century of American history seems short, yet still a long time ago. Within that span of time, the clock did move, and it provided us with some ups and downs in the African-American's quest in achieving full citizenship in a society with half closed doors. This exhibit is a retrospective, chronological account of what events, personalities, and milestones evolved and the African-American played in that history.