She's especially well known for her string of powerful autobiographies depicting the rich yet tumultuous journey of her life. ... She was also involved in the African American Expatriate community and this is when she became acquainted with Malcolm X. Angelou returned to the United States in 1965 with Malcolm X to help him establish a new civil rights organization, "The Organization of Afro-American Unity". Malcolm was assassinated a short time afterward as he prepared to address members of his organization in a Manhattan ballroom. ... It was also in this year that Maya Angelo wrote th...

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In 1968, Anne Moody published her autobiography, Coming of Age in Mississippi. ... Indeed, the Civil Rights Movement was transforming, turning away from the nonviolence of Martin Luther King to a more militant stance embodied by Malcolm X. ... Individually, covert racism is exemplified in Malcolm X's autobiography. ... Malcolm's thoughts in his autobiography can be applied to our current society. ... At any level, the racial and discriminative parallels of Anne Moody's autobiography and modern society are absolute. ...

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The ideology of apartheid as proposed by Daniel Francois Malan and the implementation of these ideologies into societal regulations created a new wave of strong nationalist thinking. In conjecture with the attitudes on racial separation in America, South Africa was taking a radically opposite stance towards segregation with plans to further separate the races while in America the the seedlings of a civil rights movement began to take root. Fundamental to the understanding of these differing stances is the reasoning behind the driving forces of these doctrines and how they may or may not have ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate