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Maya Angelou One Today Analysis

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Throughout the 20th and (rising of) the 21st centuries, African American people have been dealt with many social, political and economic challenges. Most people have the common knowledge that equality did not exist during the upbringing of our country. African Americans were slaves to many and had no rights as a U.S. citizen. This has changed over the course of many years and civil rights leaders fighting for freedom, however it took persistence, determination and strength to get to where we are today. I know of the adversity and struggles that were faced by African Americans from interpreting and analyzing “On the Pulse of Morning” and “One Today.” Maya Angelou – an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist at the 1993 Presidential

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