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Maya Angelou took her first job as the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco while on a break from high school.
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Maya Angelou got a part in the musical Porgy and Bess
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Maya Angelou joined the Harlem Writers Guild which was designed to support African-American authors.
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Martin Luther King Jr. asked Maya Angelou to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Maya Angelou became the newspaper editor for The Arab Observer.
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Maya Angelou published the autobiography of her life, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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Just Give me a Drink of Water 'fore I Die was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
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Maya Angelou was appointed to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year by President Jimmy Carter.
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Maya Angelou won a Grammy for the spoken album On the Pulse of the Morning.
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Maya Angelou won another Grammy for the spoken album Phenomenal Woman.
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Maya Angelou won her last Grammy for A Song Flung Up to Heaven
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Maya Angelou was inducted into the Wake Forest University Writers Hall of Fame
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