Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86

Ms. Angelou, the memoirist and poet whose landmark book of 1969, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” was among the first autobiographies by a 20th-century black woman to reach a wide general readership, died on Wednesday.

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