ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Former President Bill Clinton and Opera Winfrey were among the speakers honoring poet, author and civil rights champion Maya Angelou at a private memorial service at Wake Forest University in North Carolina on Saturday (June 7).<br/> <br />Angelou wrote the poem "On the Pulse of Morning" and read it at Clinton's first presidential inauguration in 1993.<br/> <br />She was 86 when she died at her home on May 28.<br/> <br />Angelou was best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," about growing up in the segregated South. That pioneering work helped give black women writers a literary voice and became a reading list staple in American classrooms.<br/> <br />The memoir was among a body of work including more than 30 books of fiction and poetry produced by Angelou during her prodigious career. She also was a Tony-nominated stage actress, Grammy Award winner for three spoken-word albums, civil rights activist, streetcar conductor, Calypso singer
