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Maya Angelou labeled as a feminist writer as well as being an African- American autobiographer set out to change all the opinionated barriers set by society towards blacks, women, and the poor. Through her childhood as well as her young womanhood she has faced h ....

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.... and gender based biases. Angelou's childhood in Stamps, Arkansas a relatively poor town for the blacks in the neighborhood. The Maya character growing up was impressed by the field workers that would constantly pass through her grandmothers grocery store, with the suffering of their ill paid work. Right from the start of the novel Angelou demonstrates a humanistic sympathy for the Southern blacks. When Maya was a young girl growing up, her brother Baily brought her to see a Kay Francis movie where she was relegated to the colored balcony. In her early adolescence Maya had a great concern for equality and self- determination for the black r ....