Mom & Me & Mom Summary
Maya Angelou

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Mom & Me & Mom Summary

"Mom & Me & Mom" by Maya Angelou is a memoir about the celebrated poet’s relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter. Vivian’s parents were from Trinidad. Her father had stowed away on a banana boat and landed in Florida. He and his wife had six children. Her father was a man who believed in standing up for oneself and resorting to violence when necessary. He taught Vivian, the oldest, to fight like a...

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Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou (born 1928)--author, poet, playwright, stage and screen performer, and director--is best known for her autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970), which recalls a young African... Read more

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Standing before the church congregation, little Marguerite Johnson realized that everyone was looking at her, and that she wasn't a white girl with long blonde hair. As she remembered that she was a g... Read more

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Maya Angelou's literary significance rests upon her exceptional ability to tell her life story as both a human being and a black American woman in the twentieth century. Four serial autobiographical v... Read more

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