TV adaptation of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKvfM7eMRXU
On April 28, 1979, this made-for-TV adaption of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings aired on CBS. Angelou, along with screenwriter Leonora Thuna, wrote the screenplay herself while Fielder Cook directed.
Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "Sympathy"
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46459
The full text of the poem from which Maya Angelou derived I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing's title
Images from the Missouri History Museum
Photographs of St. Louis from 1901 to 2000
32 Stunning Photos Of San Francisco In The 40s And 50s
Fred Lyon's photographs of San Francisco during the 1940s and 1950s
Religion and the South
http://southernspaces.org/2004/overview-religion-and-us-south
Charles Reagan Wilson's paper on religion in the Southeast United States
The Uprooted: Chronicling the Great Migration
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/06/the-uprooted
The New Yorker reviews Isabel Wilkerson's "masterful" book about the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration.
