![]() This material is arranged alphabetically by agent's name. The agents and publishers subseries consists of correspondence with the three literary agents with whom Angelou worked most of these files also include contracts for publications and promotional events. Both the personal and professional subseries are organized alphabetically by last name of individual or name of organization, family, or publication. Most of the professional correspondence involves requests for donations, permissions to publish, or requests for participation in an event or performance. The same occurs with the professional subseries Angelou became friendly with many of the individuals associated with organizations in which she participated, but after becoming involved professionally. Many of the items in this subseries overlap with the professional subseries, but are included here because Angelou had close relationships with the individuals before any professional aspects arose. The personal subseries includes letters, emails, faxes, and telegrams to and from friends and colleagues, including James Baldwin, Coretta Scott King, Julian Mayfield, and Dolly McPherson. This series is divided into five subseries: (1) Personal (2) Professional (3) Agents and publishers (4) Regrets and (5) Fan mail, the last of which is restricted until 2030. The Maya Angelou papers are arranged in five series: Lastly, there is a considerable amount of material about Angelou and includes newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reviews, and other printed material regarding her publications and appearances. There are a large number of subject files on various individuals, organizations, geographic locations, publications, and schools. Additionally, there are office files teaching material, such as syllabi and reading assignments and materials pertaining to Angelou's Hallmark greeting card series. Additionally, there is personal and professional correspondence with such notable figures as James Baldwin, Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis, Mari Evans, Rosa Guy, Coretta Scott King, Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach, Julian Mayfield, Malcolm X, and her editors, to name a few.Īlso significant are requests to read or perform her work at universities and other organizations, and material related to various organizations' boards and committees on which she participated. The Maya Angelou papers consist of original manuscripts, computer generated typescripts, galleys, and proofs of published work such as I Know why the Caged Bird Sings, Hallelujah the Welcome Table, I Shall Not Be Moved, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, Heart of a Woman, and All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, among others, as well as manuscripts for unpublished work and dozens of poems. Angelou died in 2014, leaving a legacy of artistry for generations to come. Despite never attending college, she received over thirty honorary degrees from universities across the nationa. Angelou served on two presidential committees was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and the Lincoln Medal in 2008 and has received three Grammy Awards. The feature film, Down in the Delta, was Angelou's directorial debut.Īngelou composed and read her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President William (Bill) Clinton's first inaugural ceremony in 1993. She made numerous television and film appearances, in Alex Haley's Roots (1977) and John Singleton's Poetic Justice (1993), among others. Her script, the first by an African American woman ever to be filmed, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Among her accomplishments, Angelou wrote the screenplay and composed the score for the 1972 film Georgia, Georgia. Her published verse, non-fiction, and fiction include more than 30 bestselling titles, such as Gather Together in My Name (1974), And Still I Rise (1978), and I Shall Not Be Moved (1990). ![]() Inspired by James Baldwin to write her story, Angelou published her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) to international acclaim and enormous popular success. In the early 1960s, she moved with her son to Africa, where she lived and worked for various news outlets, as a journalist, in Egypt and Ghana. ![]() She also worked for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), under Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership. In 1958, she moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, acted in the historic Off-Broadway production of Jean Genet's The Blacks and wrote and performed Cabaret for Freedom. She studied modern dance with Martha Graham, danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety shows and, in 1957, recorded her first album, Calypso Lady. In the mid-fifties, Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess. She was a poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, dancer, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou (1928-2014) was one of the most renowned and celebrated voices in American literature. ![]()
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