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Maya Angelou was born April 4th in St. Louis Missouri with her given name being Marguerite Annie Johnson
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Maya was sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend and became mute after his death for an extended period of time
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Maya dropped out of school to become the first female African American cable car conductor
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Maya returned to high school but became pregnant and had her son, Guy, shortly after graduating.
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Martin Luther King appointed Maya to lead the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Vusumzi Make, a South African civil rights activist, and Maya make their move to Cairo and there meet Malcolm X.
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As Maya returned to the US with Malcolm X she aided in leading his Organization of African American Unity
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Malcolm X is assassinated and two years later Maya publishes her autobiography.
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Maya receives the Chubb Fellowship Award by Yale University
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For her poem "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Die" Maya receives a Pulitzer Prize nomination
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Maya recited her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at the inauguration of Bill Clinton
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Maya receives the Hope for Peace and Justice Voice of Peace award
