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When this volume of her autobiography opens, Angelou is returning home from Africa to work alongside Malcolm X. However, she sho......
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou - Hardcover - Email Reader's Guide
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Malcolm X, on his last visit to Accra, had announced a desire to create a foundation he called the Organization of African-American Unity. His proposal included taking the plight of the African-Americans to the United Nations and asking the world council to intercede on the part of beleaguered blacks. The idea was so stimulating to the community of African-American residents that I persuaded myself I should return to the States to help establish the organization. Alice Windom and Vickie Garvin, Sylvia...
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
A SONG FLUNG UP TO HEAVEN, Angelou's sixth autobiographical volume, opens in 1964 as she returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. No sooner does she arrive there than she learns that Malcolm X has been assassinated. Devastated, she tries to put her life back together, working on the stage in local theaters and even conducting a door-to-door survey in Watts until it erupts in riot. When Martin Luther King is assassinated, Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable...
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"A Song Flung Up To Heaven" opens with Angelou's return from Africa, where she has been living for four years. A rich depiction of "the quality in the human spirit that continues to rise, " this is a moving finale to the autobiography of one of the most beloved writers of our time.
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party—where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird .
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But once again tragedy strikes. King is assassinated, and this time Angelou completely withdraws from the world, unable to deal with this horrible event. Finally, James Baldwin forces her out of isolation and insists that she accompany him to a dinner party — where the idea for writing I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is born. In fact, A Song Flung Up to Heaven ends as Maya Angelou begins to write the first sentences of Caged Bird .
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