Introduction
The Journey to Maturity and Self-Esteem: A Literary Analysis of
Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Violence and Intimidation as a Means of Social Control: A
Historical Overview of Race Relations in the South
From James P. Comer, "The Dynamics of Black and White Violence
From The Mob Still Rides: A Review of the Lynching Record,
1931-1935
From the Arkansas Gazette: "Young Negro Lynched at
Lepanto" (1936) and "Negro Lynched by Mob at Crossett" (1932)
"Tech 'Er Off, Charlie," in Tom E. Terrill and Jerrold Herisch,
eds., Such as Us: Southern Voices of the Thirties (1978)
Segregated Schools: An Institutional Method of Social Control
From Ina Corinne Brown, National Survey of the Higher Education of
Negroes (1942)
From Charles S. Johnson, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941)
From U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, "The
Public School System of Arkansas" (1923)
From Edward E. Redcay, County Training Schools and Public Secondary
Education for Negroes in the South (1935)
From Charles S. Johnson, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941)
The African-American Church
From Harry V. Richardson, Dark Glory (1947)
From Charles S. Johnson, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941)
From Ralph A. Felton, These My Brethren: A Study of 570 Negro
Churches and 1542 Negro Homes in the Rural South (1950)
From James H. Cone, The Spirituals and the Blues: An Interpretation
(1972)
From U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Religious
Bodies: 1936 (1941)
The African American Family and Other Role Models
From Abram Kardiner and Lionel Ovesey, The Mark of Oppression:
Explorations in the Personality of the American Negro (1951)
From New York Times: "Thousands in Harlem Celebrate Louis Victory"
(1935)
From Eva Mueller and William Ladd, Negro-White Differences
in Geographic Mobility (1964)
Child Sexual Abuse
From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Child Sexual
Abuse: Incest, Assault and Sexual Exploitation (1981)
Censorship
From Attacks on the Freedom to Learn: 1996 Report (1996)
From Banned Books Week Resource Guide, 1997 (1997)
From Attacks on the Freedom to Learn: 1996 Report (1996)
From the [Alabama] Decatur Daily (1995-1996)
Bibliographic Essay
Chronology of Maya Angelou's Career
Index
JOANNE MEGNA-WALLACE is Professor of Humanities at Bradford College in Bradford, Massachusetts, where she teaches French and women's literature. She is the author of articles on Maya Angelou, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. Her current interests include francophone and ethnic literatures, esperically African American women's literature.
?[A] welcome addition to a growing series of studies devoted solely
to enhancing the reader's comprehension of a single author's
work....[a]n extremely useful tool for teachers and
students....[t]his study not only expands our understanding of
Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but it allows us to
judge the work on its own merits.?-Journal of African American
History
?Megna-Wallace does an admirable job of putting Angelou's first
autobiography in historical context, using the socio-political
atmosphere surrounding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a means
of explaining Angelou's and others' actions as characters in the
book...well written and beneficial.?-VOYA
"ÝA¨ welcome addition to a growing series of studies devoted solely
to enhancing the reader's comprehension of a single author's
work....Ýa¨n extremely useful tool for teachers and
students....Ýt¨his study not only expands our understanding of
Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but it allows us to
judge the work on its own merits."-Journal of African American
History
"Megna-Wallace does an admirable job of putting Angelou's first
autobiography in historical context, using the socio-political
atmosphere surrounding I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a means
of explaining Angelou's and others' actions as characters in the
book...well written and beneficial."-VOYA
"[A] welcome addition to a growing series of studies devoted solely
to enhancing the reader's comprehension of a single author's
work....[a]n extremely useful tool for teachers and
students....[t]his study not only expands our understanding of
Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but it allows us to
judge the work on its own merits."-Journal of African American
History
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