(biography.com,2015) The Christian faith had a big impact on Angelou's values and ideals in society. Her mother taught her about the Christian principles of love, respect, independence and courage. ... The book was banned in many schools during that time since Maya Angelou was really open up about sexually abused subject. ... Maya Angelou's I Am A Christian confessedly showed her faith in God and his love by words: " When I say ... "I am a Christian"/ I'm not claiming to be perfect/ My flaws are far too visible/ But, God believes I am worth it." ...

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Schools all over the country then began to integrate their student body. ... Some organizations were The Black Panthers, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an agency, which is for organizations as well as individuals, that are engaged in non-violent protest in the major cities of the United States. ...

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King attended segregated public schools where he advanced in his education. ... King's serious character and consistent demand appeal to Christian brotherhood and American optimism made a positive influence on whites outside the south. ... At the beginning of King's movement he organized and founded SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) an organization of black churches and ministers that sought to confront racial segregation. ...

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In 1940, after graduating with honors from the 8th grade, Maya moved to Oakland California as a 14-year-old to live with her mother again where she attended George Washington High School. She studied drama and dance at night and was a scholar at the California Labor School. ... At age seventeen, she was a high school graduate and was eight months pregnant with her only child Clyde 'Guy' Johnson. ... Years later, Angelou and her son Guy, intending to migrate to Liberia, ended up settling in Ghana where she worked as the assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the U...

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She was enrolled in the private Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. ... Washington Junior High School. She soon dropped out of school at 16 years old to care for her grandma. ... One year later she received her high school diploma. ... Martin Luther King Jr. a minister at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church was the president of Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which directed the boycott and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...

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He went to local elementary and high schools, and then enrolled in Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1944. ... A national hero and a civil-rights figure of importance, King then put together the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ...

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Marguerita Johnson, whose pen name is Maya Angelou, was born in St. Louis Missouri on April 4, 1928. (Biography.com) Although Maya is most commonly known for her work as a poet, she was also an author, playwright, stage and screen producer, director, and singer. (Angelou, 7). Throughout Maya's ...

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King argues that he is part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference serving as their President. ... King replies that this is an understandable concern since everyone follows the Supreme Court Decision of 1954 that states; public schools are not to be segregated. ... King closes his letter very strongly by treating the Clergymen as his friends and Christian brothers. ...

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Since she loved art, she got a scholarship to study dance and drama in San Francisco's Labor School. When she was 14, she dropped out of the school of dance and drama to become the first African-American female car conductor. After graduating high school she had a baby boy. ... Not only did she meet and helped Malcolm X, but she became the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Most of her work is toughed and used in many schools throughout the country. ...

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A dynamite blast killed four young school girls on this day and King was asked to give the eulogy. ... King and other SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) members recruited the less fortunate and antipoverty activists to come to Washington D.C., to lobby on behalf of improved anti-poverty programs. ...

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He was able to graduate from his segregated high school at the age of fifteen and in 1944, entered Morehouse College, a distinguished institution designed for Negroes where both his father and grandfather had attended. ... King that arranged the boycott and made sure that no African-American took the Montgomery buses to school, work, or wherever else they may be going. ... After the boycott ended successfully, King was dubbed president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which he had organized. ...

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King attended "black-only" schools his entire primary education, and graduated at the age of fifteen. ... (Edna 1) In 1957, King was elected president of a new organization called; The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). ...

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