#4 Her autobiography Caged Bird is considered an influential book in the genre to help Malcolm X build the Organization of Afro-American Unity, to promote cooperation among Africans and people of African descent in the Americas. Angelou met famous human rights activist Malcolm X while she was in Ghana in early 1960s. Although she worked with SCLC for only six months, King was “grateful” for her several fundraising ventures. Angelou then served as the Northern Coordinator of SCLC. She helped to raise funds for Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a prominent civil rights organization, by organizing and starring in the musical revue Cabaret for Freedom.
In 1960, Maya Angelou met Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. #3 Angelou contributed to the Civil Rights Movement as a fundraiser and organizer Maya Angelou with a Ghana postage stamp in her honor during a 1997 ceremony in Washington In 1997, Angelou was honored on a postage stamp of Ghana. She became an administrator at the University of Ghana served as a feature editor of the African Review, a journal initiated by African- American activist Julian Mayfield was a freelance writer for the Ghanaian Times, a government-owned daily newspaper wrote and broadcast for Radio Ghana and performed for Ghana’s National Theatre. In 1962, Angelou moved to Accra, the capital city of Ghana, and she stayed there till 1965. Here she worked as an associate editor of Arab Observer, an English-language weekly news magazine. #2 She worked as an editor and freelance writer in various African journals In 1961, she performed in French dramatist Jean Genet’s play The Blacks, playing the role of the White Queen. The same year, she appeared in the American film Calypso Heat Wave, singing and performing her own compositions.
Miss Calypso was a moderate success but Angelou did not make any further records as a singer. In 1957, her first album Miss Calypso was released. In 1954, she got a role in a touring production of the opera Porgy and Bess. In the mid-1950s, Angelou began her career as a performer by singing and dancing to calypso music in clubs. #1 She was a cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess
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