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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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.
- Year: 1979
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Drama, TV Movie
- Studio: Tomorrow Entertainment
- Keyword: trauma, racism, based on memoir or autobiography, childhood
- Director: Fielder Cook
- Cast: Paul Benjamin, Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Roger E. Mosley, Esther Rolle, Madge Sinclair