Poet Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis on April 4, 1928. She wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, one of the first autobiographies by a 20th Century black woman to reach a wide general readership. She read her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993 and starred in Roots, the most-watched television show or miniseries at its time.
Maya Angelou
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