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How Maya Angelou Became San Francisco's First African-American ...  May 28, 2014 ... She had moved to San Francisco from St. Louis with her mother, ... She had always admired the tailored uniforms the female streetcar conductors wore, ... And then after two weeks a man came out of his office and he said, "Come here. ... can all these famous bozos who get one rightly use the honorific?
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Maya Angelou Was San Francisco's First Black Streetcar Conductor ...  May 28, 2014 ... Maya Angelou, the poet, writer, and performer who passed away at the age of 86, also has a place in ... ... Maya Angelou Was San Francisco's First Black Streetcar Conductor. Share on Facebook ... And then after two weeks, a man came out of his office and said 'come here.' And he asked ... Also Seen In..
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Wikipedia  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a 1969 autobiography about the early years of American writer and poet Maya Angelou. The first in a seven-volume series, it is a coming-of-age story that illustrates ... Click here for more information. .... graduating, she becomes the first Black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco.
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Five Famous San Francisco Artists - Art Market SF  Aug 15, 2016 ... Here she continued to produce photographs and images that were ... became the first African-American female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. Later she wrote one of her most famous poems, titled 'On the Pulse of Morning'. ... Today, the Bay Area Figurative Movement is seen as San Francisco's most...
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Maya Angelou Was 1st Black, Female San Francisco Street Car ...  May 28, 2014 ... Maya Angelou Was 1st Black, Female San Francisco Street Car Conductor ... Here's Why You're Not Getting Enough Sleep ... working as San Francisco's first female black street car conductor. ... Maya Angelou, one of America's most celebrated poets, novelists and civil rights activists has passed away.
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Free Flashcards about SCULPTURE - StudyStack  ALEXANDER CALDER MADE ONE OF HIS FIRST WIRE SCULPTURES IN THE IMAGE OF THIS EXPATRIATE SINGER/DANCER, JOSEPHINE BAKER.
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Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus"  In fact, Lazarus' sonnet to the Statue of Liberty was hardly noticed until after her ... written in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the Statue of Liberty's pedestal. ... Through Larazus' poem, the Statue of Liberty gained a new name: She...
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Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire | Rachkbrown's Blog  Nov 13, 2009 ... In Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, Stella Kowalski is one ... she is often overlooked because her sister Blanche, and husband...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Mar 1, 2012 ... ______ LITERARY POTPOURRI ______. Theodore Kirkoff's lyric poems about this city made him "The Poet of the Golden Gate". Where is San...
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Pulitzer Prize - PBS  Jan 24, 2006 ... When he won his first Pulitzer, in 1920 for Beyond the Horizon, O'Neill ... the popular plays A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1948), ... Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof won the award in 1955 despite its sexual...
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Howl and Other Poems, Pocket Poets Number 4 - City Lights Books  The epigraph for Howl is from Walt Whitman: 'Unscrew the locks from the doors! ... San Francisco Literature & History ... Subsequently seized by U.S. customs and the San Francisco police, it was the subject of a long ... burning bohemian scholar trapped by his flames and repressions to epic vocal bard. ... Beat Generation
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First Fig - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, ... At the request of Vassar's drama department, she also wrote her first verse play, The ... My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh,...
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The History of Hippies - San Francisco, California - The Haight ...  The academic and intellectual establishment, Left, Right, and Center, was .... a well-known modernist poet in the Paris America of the late twenties and early thirties. ... The San Francisco Poetry Center had been in existence for some years and ...... continuity between the beatniks of the 1950's and the hippies of the 1960's.
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History and Mission | Poetry Foundation  The gift from Ruth Lilly has allowed the Poetry Foundation to expand and enhance the ... Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry is the oldest monthly ... The magazine established its reputation early by publishing the first important poems of T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, H.D.,...
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J! Archive - Show #3410, aired 1999-06-04  In 1930 Ellen Church was flying high as the first woman to serve the airlines in this ... During one year, 1802, Wordsworth wrote 3 poems about this beautiful...
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Gwendolyn Brooks | Poetry Foundation  She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congressthe first black woman ... poet, with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. ... Her poems in A Street in Bronzeville and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Allen ... In the 1950s Brooks published her first and only novel, Maud Martha, which...
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Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia  Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born in Boston, she studied ... While living in Winthrop, eight-year-old Plath published her first poem in the ..... In 1971, the volumes Winter Trees and Crossing the Water were published in the ... Plath was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, posthumously.
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Poetry - Poems | Academy of American Poets - Poets.org  Poetry - I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond. ... Born near St. Louis, Missouri, on November 15, 1887, Marianne Moore was raised in the...
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Market Street Railway | We keep San Francisco's Vintage Streetcars ...  We keep San Francisco's Vintage Streetcars on Track. ... As good a time as any to share this photo of Market Street, looking east from Fifth Street, taken ... (You can see an operating one at our San Francisco Railway Museum.) ... We also have a great set of notecards at the museum featuring Fred's San Francisco images.
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Maya Angelou Was 1st Black, Female San Francisco Street Car ...  May 28, 2014 ... Maya Angelou Was 1st Black, Female San Francisco Street Car Conductor ... barriers working as San Francisco's first female black street car conductor. ... Maya Angelou, one of America's most celebrated poets, novelists and...
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Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia  Sylvia Plath was one of the most renowned and influential poets, novelists, and short story ... Pen name, Victoria Lucas ... While living in Winthrop, eight-year-old Plath published her first poem in the Boston Herald's children's section. .... Her only novel, The Bell Jar, was released in January 1963, published under the pen...