Publisher's Synopsis
This book concludes the six exhilarating volumes of autobiography that Maya Angelou began nearly thirty years before with I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way home to the United States, leaving behind her beloved son Guy to finish university in Ghana. Home is pulsing with the civil rights movement and that's where Maya Angelou wants to be, working alongside Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. With her customary wisdom, compassion and wit, Maya Angelou provides a first-hand record of an extraordinarily exciting and tragic political period. She writes too of "Jimmy" Baldwin, Eldridge Cleaver, and of friends and family, ending with the beginning of her career as one of the most impressive writers of memoir.
