Performance feedback and insertion notes box 1 folder 2.Manuscript, with typescript introductory notes box 1 folder 1.Ajax (1974) (Adaptation of Sophocles' play by Angelou, ca.Typed pages (2) and manuscript notes about music box 69 folder 8.Foreign distribution list (1976 April-May) box 60 folder 11.Typescript for Part Two: The Inheritors, with manuscript edits box 60 folder 10.Set, costume, and sound notes box 60 folder 9.Final script for Part One: Legacy (2 copies) (1976 December) box 60 folder 8.United States Information Agency correspondence, including typescript with edits and article on fold instruments box 69 folder 7.Typescript of Part One: The Legacy, with notes/corrections (2 copies) box 60 folder 7.Typescript of Part One: The Legacy box 60 folder 6.Carbon copies of typescripts and bibliography for Part One: Legacy box 60 folder 5.Bibliography for Part One: The Legacy and partial script, with manuscript notes box 60 folder 4.Manuscript by Angelou and others box 69 folder 6.Afro-American History Specials: The Arts (1976) (Installment of television series, written by Maya Angelou, December 1976.Series correspond to play and film production names, related organizations, and assorted video and audio recordings, and are arranged in alphabetical order. Formats include manuscript, print, audio, and video. Materials include original scripts for film and theater adaptations by Angelou of her own and other authors' works items relating to productions which Angelou produced, directed, or appeared in documentaries and interviews and ephemeral materials. The collection consists of materials relating to Maya Angelou's work in the performing arts. Angelou passed away at her home in Winston Salem on May 28, 2014, at the age of 86. Smith Reynolds chaired professorship in American Studies at Wake Forest University from 1982 until her death. In 1993 she read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning"Īt the inauguration ceremony for President Bill Clinton.Īlthough her formal education ended with high school, Angelou has received many honorary degrees and held the Z. She also worked as an actor, stage and screen director, and writer of plays and screenplays. Angelou went on to publish four more books of memoirs, as well as many volumes of poetry. In 1969 she published I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of her autobiographical works, for which she is best known. Angelou traveled widely, touring Europe and Africa in the cast of Porgy and Bess, and married several times. She was also active in the Civil Rights movement. Maya gave birth to her only child, a son named Guy Johnson, when she was 16.Īngelou began her professional career as a singer and dancer. The children were eventually reunited with their mother in San Francisco, but Maya returned to Stamps to live with her grandmother again as a teenager. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she and her four-year-old brother Bailey were sent to live with their paternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928, in St. Submit a research request for this material Biographical and Historical Note Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements.
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