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Maya Angelou Vocabulary

What do the following words and phrases from the article mean? Can you work out their meaning
from their context within the article, or use a dictionary if you need to?

Civil rights

Great Depression

Paternal

Segregated

Prejudice

Retaliation

Chronicled

Calypso

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Maya Angelou Vocabulary

Inauguration

Prolific

Thwarted

Austere

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