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In Accra, she became close friends with Malcolm X during his visit in the early 1960s.

Angelou returned to the U. S. in 1965 to help him build a new civil rights organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity ; he was assassinated shortly afterward.

Devastated and adrift, she joined her brother in Hawaii, where she resumed her singing career, and then moved back to Los Angeles to focus on her writing career.

She worked as a market researcher in Watts and witnessed the riots in the summer of 1965.

She acted in and wrote plays, and returned to New York in 1967.

She met her lifelong friend Rosa Guy and renewed her friendship with James Baldwin, whom she had met in Paris in the 1950s and called " my brother ", during this time.

Her friend Jerry Purcell provided Angelou with a stipend to support her writing.