Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 | Communications Major | Scoop.it
From www.nytimes.com - May 28, 2014 12:42 PM

Ms. Angelou’s landmark book, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide readership.