Awards and Achievements
What are some of Angelou's awards
What is two NAACP image awards, a Pulitzer award and a Presidential Medal of Freedom
How many languages was Angelou fluent in?
What is 5 languages not including English. She was fluent in Spanish, Italian, French, Arabic, and Fanti.
How many years was one of Maya Angelou's books a New York Times Bestseller?
What is 2 years. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was on the list for 2 years.
True or False? Maya Angelou worked with Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X?
What is True
True or False? Maya Angelou was born in 1930
What is False. She was born 1928
True or False? Maya Angelou won more than 30 honorary degrees.
What is False. She won more than 50 honorary degrees.
Where is St. Louis Missouri
How many volumes did Maya Angelou write in her autobiography?
What is 7
What was something difficult that happened to Maya Angelou?
What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s death on her birthday.
What prize did the movie that Maya Angelou wrote (Georgia, Georgia) win?
What is the Pulitzer Prize
What was Maya Angelou the first woman to do?
What is being the first female inaugural poet in U.S. presidential history.
Maya was unfortunately mute for many years. How many years was she mute?
What is 5 years
What 2 countries did Angelou go to where she improved in the arts?
What is Cairo and Ghana
What was Maya and many other people's response to King's and Malcom's death.
What is keeping on protesting for civil rights
True or False. Did Angelou have a disability?
What is True. Her selective mutisim is a disability.
What President gave Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Who is Barack Obama
Who persuaded Maya to speak again after years of being mute?
Who is one of her Grandma's friends
What was the name of the film that's screenplay was written by Maya Angelou?
Georgia,Georgia
What did Maya say she and others African Americans felt due to the death of Malcolm X and Martin Luther?
What are blinded moles?
True or False? Maya wrote and presented a 10-part tv series involving Blues and Black Americans?
What is True
True or False? Maya Angelou reached her goal of directing a film
What is true. In 1998 she directed Down in the Delta
What year did Maya Angelou die?
When is 2014 at age 86
What are the names of Angelou's most famous poems?
What is Phenomenal Women and Caged Bird
What are some things Maya Angelou did for civil rights?
She was northern co-ordinator for Martin Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference, she was a South African freedom fighter, and she worked for Malcolm X.
At what University did Angelou become an academic proffesor?
What is Wake Forest University in North Carolina