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Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri by the name of Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Angelou and her brother, Bailey, were sent to stay with her father's mother upon the collapse of her parents' marriage
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Maya and her brother are taken back to their mother in St. Louis by their father.
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Maya Angelou and her brother moved to live with their mother the year after Angelou graduated eight grade
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Angelou graduated high school and became pregnant at sixteen-years-old with a son
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Dr. Martain Luther King appointed Angelou as the Northern Coordinator of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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Along with her civil rights activist boyfriend, Vusumzi Make, Angelou moved her son to Egypt and worked as an editor for the "Arab Observer"
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After separating from her boyfriend, Angelou moved with her son to Ghana
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Angelou returned to the US from Ghana
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Maya Angelou's first memoir is published
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Angelou became the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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Angelou was awarded for her African-American cultural heritage writing
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Maya was appointed to read her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at the ceremony
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President Barack Obama awarded Maya Angelou with the highest United States civilian award
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Angelou died in Winston-Salem, NC
