LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Maya Angelou: North Carolina
built 201 days ago
Angelou moved to New York, where she later began to study under Pearl Primus. Angelou’s success grew from her casting in Porgy and Bess, which toured in Africa and Europe. Upon returning to America, she co-wrote Caberet for Freedom, with Godfrey Cambridge, at a fund-raiser for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Angelou served as the northern coordinator for the SCLC for a year.
Source:
During the planning phase of the Angelou Center the internal steering committee found that the health status of minority North Carolinians was similar to those of minorities around the nation. African-American death rates increased 150 percent for AIDS and 14 percent for diabetes mellitus between 1990 and 1996. Compared to whites, diabetes-related mortality rates were three times as high among African-Americans and twice as high for all other minority groups combined. Nationally, infant mortality rates have improved. However, North Carolina continues to have one of the highest infant mortality rates in the United States.
Source:
During the early 1960s, Angelou lived in Egypt, where she was the associate editor of The Arab Observer in Cairo. During this time, she ... contributed articles to The Ghanaian Times and was featured on the Ghanaian Broadcasting Corporation programming in Accra. During the mid-1960s, she became assistant administrator of the School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana. She was the feature editor of the African Review in Accra from 1964 to 1966. During this time she served as northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Source:
In the sixties, at the request of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Angelou became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and in 1975 she received the Ladies Home Journal Woman of the Year Award in communications. She received numerous honorary degrees and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Woman's Year and by President Ford to the American Revolutionary Bicentennial Advisory Council. She is on the board of the American Film Institute and is one of the few female members of the Director's Guild.
Source:
Ms. Angelou became the northern coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She was appointed by President Gerald Ford to the Bicentennial Commission and by President Jimmy Carter to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year.
Source:
Angelou moved back to the South in 1981, after she and de Feu were divorced. In Winston- Salem, North Carolina, she accepted a lifetime position as Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
North Carolina