Maya Angelou
4 April 1928 – 28 May 2014
American memoirist, poet and civil rights activist whose autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings became a landmark of American literature.
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Recited "On the Pulse of Morning" at the Clinton inauguration
20 January 1993
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Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
15 February 2011
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