Martin Luther King

This brought her up close and personal with yet another political and personal trauma. King was murdered on Angelou's fortieth birthday: the second charismatic black leader to be killed just when she was about to...

This novel deals rather briefly with the social and commercial success constructed for himself by Gordon Hammond (a self-made builder), then in more detail the flying apart of this apparently stable construction and the re-assemblage...

AW writes here about love and disillusionment, about political figures like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King , about writers she admired, like Bessie Head , or like Zora Neale Hurston , Nella Larsen ...

She found it hard to write this volume, to reconcile her desire to write something uplifting with such painful material as the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King , race riots, and the...

Three days after Martin Luther King was killed, EJH published in the Sunday Telegraph an article about the murder entitled The Real Tragedy of the South

When MA returned from Africa to the USA she intended to throw in her lot with the fledgeling Organization of Afro-American Unity , which Malcolm X had launched the previous year, and which he designed...

After a commemorative event at Carnegie Hall to mark the centenary of the birth of W. E. B. Du Bois (which MA attended with the Baldwin family to hear Pete Seeger sing and James Baldwin

With David DeMoss and about 250,000 other people, 60,000 of them white, AW attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963 in support of the impending Civil Rights Act, and...

During the 1950s MA , with competence as a singer and success as a dancer already under her belt, developed the ambition of becoming a writer. She began with sketches, song lyrics, and short stories...

The events that led up to this book were the devastating murder of Martin Luther King and the success of MA 's tv series Black, Blues, Black. Then an editor at Random House suggested...

In April 1968 AW suffered a miscarriage, which she attributed to the physical and emotional stress of Martin Luther King 's assassination and her walking in his funeral procession.