https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n Maya Angelou en-us 2022-02-04 02:06:04 UTC 2022-04-01 19:07:13 UTC hello@padlet.com chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121777645 "I was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 24, 1912, to Fannie Burroughs and James Height." (1)]]> 2022-03-30 15:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121777645 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121782015 "My grandparents died long before I was born, so I knew little about them..." (2)]]> 2022-03-30 15:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121782015 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121790389 "When I was four years old, we moved to Rankin, Pennsylvania, part of the Great Migration of southern [expletive] to the north." (2)]]> 2022-03-30 15:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121790389 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121804680 "The telegram said that Lincoln had been lost in a cave-in at the mine where he worked. I didn't know what to do, but I knew this was shocking news." (4-5)]]> 2022-03-30 15:59:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2121804680 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124696191 Height, Dorothy I. Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir. New York City, PublicAffairs, 2003.

]]> 2022-04-01 02:36:49 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124696191 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124704014 "It was in Williamport, Pennsylvania, when I was thirteen years old, that I saw and heard for the first time a [expletive] women who was an elected official. Her name was Maude Coleman, and she was a member of the state legislature." (7)]]> 2022-04-01 02:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124704014 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124715125 "Once, when I won an impromptu speech contest, Mrs. Johnston sent me a beaver coat that Mary had outgrown. Beaver coats were very elegant, and everyone at school knew that only rich girls could have them." (8)]]> 2022-04-01 02:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124715125 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124724496 "In 1974, when the Ladies' Home Journal named me "Woman of the Year" in human rights, Mary Johnston saw the story and sent me a lovely letter." (8)]]> 2022-04-01 02:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2124724496 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2125911623 "After examining me, the doctor excused me and spoke to my mother. On the streetcar going home, I saw her eyes filling with tears, although she kept her head turned, hoping I wouldn't notice. After a while, I told her I had heard what the doctor said-that I would not live to be sixteen." (9)]]> 2022-04-01 18:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2125911623 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2125919780 "At the end of World War 1, a war memorial to the fallen soldiers from Rankin was to be unveiled on the school grounds. An Italian girl, Maria, and I were chosen to do the unveiling." (11)]]> 2022-04-01 18:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2125919780 chewjac000 https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2125926179 "One day as we were ready to run down the hill, Sarah turned away and said, 'I can't go down the hill with you.' 'Why not?' I asked. 'Because you're a [expletive],' she said. 'What?' I asked, stunned. 'You're a [expletive],' she repeated, and ran down the hill by herself." (12)]]> 2022-04-01 19:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chewjac000/gyt3mj42rizqzs6n/wish/2125926179