On December 10 , 1948 , the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Assembly then called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and to cause it to be disseminated , displayed , read and expounded principally in schools and other educational ...
All Rights Reserved. Maya Angelou was born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou became one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. With over 50 honorary doctorate degrees Dr. Maya Angelou became a celebrated poet, memoirist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist.
Maya Angelou dead: Celebrated author, poet, dies at age 86 in North Carolina. Maya Angelou, seen here in April, has died at the age of 86, according to a North Carolina station. Maya Angelou was the indigent child who reached the White House, the mute little girl whose indelible voice will echo through the centuries. The 86-year-old renaissance woman, an award-winning writer, poet, actress and witness to history, died quietly Wednesday morning at her home on the North Carolina campus of Wake Forest University.