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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1979)

Drama TV Movie
Release Date: 1979, April 28
Directors: Fielder Cook
Countries: United States of America
Production: Tomorrow Entertainment
Cast: Madge Sinclair, Tonea Stewart, Esther Rolle, Ruby Dee, Art Evans, J. Don Ferguson, Johnny Lewis, Sonny Jim Gaines, Paul Benjamin, Georgia Allen, Roger E. Mosley, Diahann Carroll

Overview:

Based on writer Maya Angelou's eloquent reminiscences of her days as a gifted youngster growing up in the South during the Depression years where she and her older brother were raised by their grandmother after the divorce of their parents.

Keywords:

racism childhood trauma based on memoir or autobiography