While living in Arkansas, she experienced many events that degraded or discriminated an African American. One event she remembers vividly is when her grandmother was being degraded by the white primacy group, the Ku Klux Klan. Maya’s grandmother owned a black corner store where many people in the neighborhood to buy food. On this particular day Maya’s Uncle was hiding because for some reason the Ku Klux Klan was coming after him. When the white group came in Maya Angelou’s grandmother was standing out at the counter listening to all of the racist comments the group was saying to her. When the racist group became convinced that the Uncle was not there, they walked out, and Maya came out from the shadows flabbergasted at what just happened. From this experience Maya Angelou was very proud of her grandmother fir having such thick skin and dealing with all the hate without lashing out. From this experience Maya knew black women is powerful and strong and she wanted to become that, she also wanted the whole world to know that black women and black people in general was more than what most people
While living in Arkansas, she experienced many events that degraded or discriminated an African American. One event she remembers vividly is when her grandmother was being degraded by the white primacy group, the Ku Klux Klan. Maya’s grandmother owned a black corner store where many people in the neighborhood to buy food. On this particular day Maya’s Uncle was hiding because for some reason the Ku Klux Klan was coming after him. When the white group came in Maya Angelou’s grandmother was standing out at the counter listening to all of the racist comments the group was saying to her. When the racist group became convinced that the Uncle was not there, they walked out, and Maya came out from the shadows flabbergasted at what just happened. From this experience Maya Angelou was very proud of her grandmother fir having such thick skin and dealing with all the hate without lashing out. From this experience Maya knew black women is powerful and strong and she wanted to become that, she also wanted the whole world to know that black women and black people in general was more than what most people