Maya Angelou Donates Papers to Schomburg Center
Poet Maya Angelou will be donating her personal papers and
documents to The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in
Harlem today.
Through her donation of 343 boxes containing notes and
letters, Angelou gives an intimate glimpse into her thought processes as
she
sat down to pen iconic books like "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and
the poems "Still I Rise" and "Phenomenal Woman." The collection
includes handwritten
notes for "Caged Bird" and letters to friends like Oprah, Malcolm X,
James Baldwin and Coretta Scott King...