Angelou, in 1969. Photograph © Chester Higgins, Jr./chesterhiggins.com.
Angelou, circa 1974. Photograph by Wayne Miller/Magnum.
Angelou and Gloria Steinem commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the March on Washington, on August 27, 1983. Photograph by James M. Thresher/The Washington Post via Getty.
Angelou recites a poem in London in the late nineteen-eighties. Photograph by Lennox Smillie/Camera Press/Redux.
Angelou and Amiri Baraka dance on February 22, 1991, to celebrate the eighty-ninth birthday of Langston Hughes, at New York City’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Photograph by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times/Redux.
President Bill Clinton reaches out to Angelou after she delivered a poem on the steps of the Capitol during his Inauguration on January 20, 1993. Photograph by Mark Lennihan/AP.
Hillary Clinton, then running for President, appears with Angelou at a campaign event at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on April 18, 2008. Photograph by Charles Dharapak/AP.
Angelou with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Washington, D.C., ceremony awarding him the J. William Fulbright Prize on November 21, 2008. Photograph by Jim Young/Reuters/Corbis.
Angelou, Alicia Keys, and Oprah Winfrey tape the final episode of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on May 17, 2011, in Chicago. Photograph by Charles Rex Arbogast/AP.
Angelou and President Obama after she received the 2010 Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House. Photogrpah by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP.
The poet and memoirist Maya Angelou died on May 28th, at the age of eighty-six. A civil-rights activist and a professor at Wake Forest University, Angelou—born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri—was the author of works including “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” and received awards including the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her public life spanned decades and included a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as dozens of honorary degrees.
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