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All God's children need traveling shoes / Maya Angelou.

Title
All God's children need traveling shoes / Maya Angelou.
Author
Angelou, Maya
Publication
New York : Random House, c1986.

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TextRequest in advance PS3551.N464 Z463 1986Off-site

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Description
[11], 210 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
The author describes her odyssey to Ghana in the 1960s, meant as a return to her African roots. Over a few years she transformed herself by learning to speak Fanti, dressing in Ghanian style and delving in politics. But after encountering racial prejudice and losing her son in a car crash, she returned to America.
Subject
  • Angelou, Maya
  • 1900-1999
  • Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
  • Entertainers > United States > Biography
  • African American women > Biography
  • African American authors > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Autobiography (the 5th in a series).
  • "A signed first edition of this book has been privately printed by the Franklin Library"--Prelim. p. [5].
Bibliography (note)
  • (Autobiographical).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0394521439 :
LCCN
^^^85019351^//r86
OCLC
  • 12555488
  • SCSB-10805003
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library