In thge mid 1950's - Angelou career as a performer started to take off. She landed a role in a touring production of Porgy and Bess. Angelou later appeared off Broadway in Calypso n. A member of the Harlem Writers Guild and a civil rights activist, she organized and stared in the musical revue Cabaret for Freedom as a benefit f or the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Angelou served as the SCLCs Northern Coordinator. In 1961 Angelou appeared in one off-Broadway production of Jean Ge nits. The Blacks with James Earl Jones, Lou Gossett Jr and Cicely Tyson. While the play earned strong reviews, she moved on to other pursuits. Angelou spent much of 1960 's living abroad, she first lived in Egypt and then Ghana working as an Editor and freelance writer, Angelou also held a position at the University of Ghana for a Time.
Angelou returned to the United States , at the urging of her friend writer James Baldwin, she began writing about her life experiences and the result of her efforts became the best selling memoir about her childhood and young adults years entitled " I know why the caged bird sings ." This poignant work made Angelou an International literary star. Angelou soon broke new creative grounds becoming the first African American woman to have he5 screenplay produced. She wrote th
e 1972 drama Georgia, Georgia, continuing to act. Angelou earned a Tony Award nomination for her role in the 1073 play Look Away and an Emmy Award nomination for her work in the 1977 television series Roots:
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