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divided by where and how they live.As Maya Angelou says,there is very little contact between thetwo races.Their houses are in different parts of town and they goto different schools,colleges,stores,and places of entertainment.When they travel,they sit in separate parts of buses and trains.  \nAfter the American Civil War(1861-65),slavery was ended inthe defeated Southern states,and many changes were made by thenational government to give black people more rights.However,as time passed,the South was left more and more alone and thestate governments began to take control again.Black and whitepeople were segregated in many ways.Arkansas,like all Southernstates,passed laws against marriage or even close relationshipsbetween the races.Blacks were prevented from voting by havingto pay taxes or pass difficult reading and writing tests.By the earlytwentieth century,the inequality was as bad as in South Africa.  \nMaya Angelou was not born into this.Her parents lived inSt.Louis,a city six hundred kilometers to the north.There,thesituation of black people,though far from perfect,was muchbetter.When she was three,though,Maya's parents parted,andshe and her brother Bailey were sent south to live in Arkansas.  \nThis book is the story of the early years of Maya Angelou's  \nlife.She meets with racism in its worst forms.Then,at the ageof eight,she is raped by her mother's boyfriend.She returns toStamps but,when her mother moves to California,travels tojoin her.She sees her father again,and tries to drive him homefrom Mexico when he is too drunk to move.It is a far fromnormal way to grow up,but Maya Angelou survives,graduatesfrom college,and sets out on the path to being the famous andimportant woman that she is today  \nI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is the first of five books thatMaya Angelou wrote about her life.The others are Gather Togetherin My Name(1974),Singin'and Swingin'and Getting'Merry LikeChristmas(1976),The Heart of a Woman(1981)and All God'sChildren need 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