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BL
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1021558
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b775928
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| Main Entry
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Angelou, Maya.
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| Title & Author
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I know why the caged bird sings /\ Maya Angelou.
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| Publication Statement
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New York,: Random House, [1970, ©1969]
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281 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0345514408
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: 0375507892
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: 0394429869
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: 0553279378
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: 055338001X
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: 9780345514400
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: 9780375507892
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: 9780394429861
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: 9780553279375
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: 9780553380019
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| Notes
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Autobiography.
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| Abstract
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"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography describing the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates how strength of character and a love of literature can help overcome racism and trauma. The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird, Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to prejudice"--Wikipedia, viewed November 2, 2020.
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An African American woman recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums in the 1930's and 1940's.
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| Subject
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Angelou, Maya-- Childhood and youth.
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Angelou, Maya-- Homes and haunts-- Arkansas.
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Angelou, Maya.
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African American authors, Biography.
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African American authors.
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African American families-- Arkansas.
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Authors, American-- Homes and haunts-- Arkansas.
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Authors, American-- 20th century, Biography.
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Country life-- United States, Biography.
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Entertainers-- United States, Biography.
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Authors, American-- Homes and haunts-- Arkansas.
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Authors, American-- 20th century, Biography.
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African American authors.
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African American families.
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Authors, American-- Homes and haunts.
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Authors, American.
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Country life.
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Entertainers.
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Homes.
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Intellectual life.
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Manners and customs.
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Social conditions.
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Arkansas, Intellectual life, 20th century.
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Arkansas, Social conditions, Biography.
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Arkansas, Social life and customs.
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Arkansas.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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917.3/09/74960924B
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| LC Classification
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PS3551.N464Z466 1970
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