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Based on the writings of African-American poet/playwright Maya Angelou.
Though she eventually became America's poet laureate, Angelou was once just another little black girl growing up in Depression-era Arkansas. Her efforts to better herself run up against the stone wall of bigotry; in addition, the girl is traumatized into sullen silence by a brutal rape.
Slowly, and with the loving support of her dedicated mother, Angelou overcomes her many deprivations and, by the time she is a high school senior, she has been elected class valedictorian.
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