James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is used in this novel at the protagonist's eighth grade graduation. The novel concludes with the protagonist giving birth to son at sixteen after moving to San Francisco with her mother Vivian and brother Baxter. Opening with the narrator fleeing from the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of Stamps, Arkansas after forgetting her Easter lines, --for 10 points--, identify this autobiographical account of Maya Angelou's life.
James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is used in this novel at the protagonist's eighth grade graduation. The novel concludes with the protagonist giving birth to son at sixteen after moving to San Francisco with her mother Vivian and brother Baxter. Opening with the narrator fleeing from the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of Stamps, Arkansas after forgetting her Easter lines, --for 10 points--, identify this autobiographical account of Maya Angelou's life.
James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" is used in this novel at the protagonist's eighth grade graduation.
{I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}