Maya Angelou

  • Her birth

  • Parents divorce when she was 3

  • Sent to live with her fathers mother with her older brother Bailey

  • Before she turned 8 years old she was raped by her mothers boyfriend

    She talked to nobody except her brother
  • She experienced first hand racism and discrimination in Arkansas

  • She became mute for 5 years because she thought she caused his death (he was murdered)