In this first of five volumes of autobiography, Maya Angelou tells the story of her life from age three, when her divorcing parents sent her and her brother to live with their maternal grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas, to age sixteen, when, reunited with her mother in San Francisco, she gave birth t...
Oppressive Lives of Early Americans Throughout history many American classes, such as slaves, laborers, and women, were subjected to oppressive conditions, which made them ignorant to the most vital words of our nations Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that a...
"To the slave, your celebration is a sham your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery .There is not a nation on the Earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States," stated Frederick Douglass at an Independence Day speech in New York. ...
