Gather Together in My Name

US Random House (New York, 1974) is the true first — the census claim holds. No UK-vs-US or original-language precedence question arises: an American book by an American author, first published in the United States, and the American issue is the only edition collected as the first. The census note is also correct that this is the second volume of Angelou's autobiographical sequence, following I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Random House, 1969).