Maya Angelou: References & Edit History

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Harvard Business Review - Life?s Work: An Interview with Maya Angelou. Sep 23, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 24, 2026
Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Maya Angelou. May 05, 2026
Anniversary information added. Mar 31, 2026
Add new Web site: NPR - In A New Memoir, Maya Angelou Recalls How A 'Lady' Became 'Mom'. Mar 28, 2026
Added top questions and links. Jan 29, 2026
Add new Web site: Official Site of Dr. Maya Angelou Foundation. Dec 19, 2025
Add new Web site: Digital Commonms at RISD - "Mellon Lecture Series | Maya Angelou". Aug 26, 2025
Add new Web site: Harvard Business Review - Life?s Work: An Interview with Maya Angelou. Mar 21, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 11, 2025
Added more information about her poetry and activism. Jan 30, 2025
Replaced media. Jan 30, 2025
Add new Web site: International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology - Maya Angelou?s Life and Works as an Inspirational Sources to the Women. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Wisconsin-Madison - The Nonviolence Project - Maya Angelou. Jul 30, 2024
Add new Web site: The History Makers - Maya Angelou. May 08, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Jan 23, 2024
Add new Web site: All Poetry - Maya Angelou. Jan 03, 2024
Add new Web site: National Women's History Museum - Maya Angelou. Nov 16, 2023
Add new Web site: The Poetry Archive - Maya Angelou. Aug 08, 2023
Add new Web site: CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Biography of Maya Angelou. Aug 22, 2022
Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Maya Angelou. May 09, 2021
Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise - Memory and Setting in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Aug 21, 2020
Corrected display issue. Oct 24, 2018
Noted the release of the documentary Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016). Feb 05, 2016
Added photograph. Jul 02, 2015
Add new Web site: Official Site of Maya Angelou. May 11, 2015
Add new Web site: Official Site of Maya Angelou. May 11, 2015
Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - Maya Angelou (1928-2014). Oct 20, 2014
Add new Web site: Great Black Heroes - Biography of Maya Angelou. Oct 20, 2014
Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Maya Angelou. Oct 17, 2014
Article revised and updated. Jun 04, 2014
Updated for her death. May 28, 2014
Noted the release of "His Day is Done: A Nelson Mandela Tribute" and several other commissioned poems. Jan 24, 2014
Add new Web site: The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture - Biography of Maya Angelou. Jun 14, 2013
Add new Web site: National Women's Hall of Fame - Biography of Maya Angelou. Jun 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Academy of Achievement - Maya Angelou. Jun 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Maya Angelou. Jun 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Maya Angelou. Jun 14, 2013
Noted publication of new memoir. Apr 18, 2013
Added end date to the Maya's World series. Oct 23, 2012
She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Feb 16, 2011
In 2010 she was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nov 18, 2010
Article revised and updated. Sep 19, 2008
Added new Web site: Official Site of Maya Angelou. Jun 21, 2006
Article revised. Oct 19, 2000
Article revised. Jan 12, 2000
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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