Maya Angelou

By amsponhauer

  • Born in St. Louis, MO

    Named Marguerite Annie Johnson

  • Moves to Stamps, Arkansas

  • Becomes cable car conductor

    First female African-American cable car conductor

  • Gives birth to her first son, Guy

  • Marries Anastasios Angelopulos

    She then begins to go by "Maya Angelou"

  • Meets Martin Luther King Jr.

  • Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • Writes the screenplay to "Georgia, Georgia"

  • Becomes a Professor at Wake Forest

    Named first Reynold's Professor of American Studies

  • Reads her poem at Clinton's Inauguration

    Recites "On the Pulse of Morning"

  • Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • Dies in Winston-Salem, NC