REFLECTION: ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ Launched a Revolution

[Ryan Goble]

Great overview / reflection article from Smithsonian Magazine ...

“James Baldwin said Caged Bird 'liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.'” https://t.co/IAykcFdIMz @SmithsonianMag

— Penguin Random House (@penguinrandom) January 9, 2020

Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir forever changed American literature and helped carve a new space for black self-expression. https://t.co/yaLQMxbhKb

— Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) December 28, 2019