About the Book
Angelou, who leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment , and she is surprised at the obsession her ne friends have with the white world around them. She decides to stay with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild. She continues her career singing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, but more and more she begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. She help organize a benefit cabarat for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and then is appointed Martin Luther Kings Northern Coordinator.
To sum the book up, she leaves the New York bail bondsman she was intending to marry and has fallen in lvow with a South African Freedom fighter name Vusumzi, who sweeps her off her feet and eventually takes her to London and then to Cairo, where, as her marriage begins break up, she becomes the first female editor of the English- language magazine
