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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

By: Dr Maya Angelou
Narrated by: Dr Maya Angelou
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A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish university in Ghana. America is pulsing with the challenge of change, the civil rights movement is in full swing and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside her friends Malcolm X and Martin Luther King.

In this marvellous account, Maya Angelou provides, with her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes of Jimmy Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, and finishes with the beginnings of her career as one of America's most impressive memoir writers.
©2010 Maya Angelou (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK
Authors Women Civil rights
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What a story, I felt like seeing everything with my own eyes, felt every feeling !

A book that everyone should read , captivating and so insightful and powerful, I absolutely loved it

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