Maya Angelou · every age
What was Maya Angelou doing at 40?
Mute for five years as a child; the voice of a nation at 64
- c. 1968
Wrote and hosted the TV series Blacks, Blues, Black!
Made for National Educational Television with almost no prior experience.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Apr 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on her 40th birthday
He had asked her to organize a march. Baldwin talked her out of the depression that followed.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 40
Portrait: Photo: Clinton Library (1993), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
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