Maya Angelou Lifeline- Jake Labus

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    Move to San Francisco, CA

    Parents move from St. Louis to San Francisco
  • Birth

    Birth

    Marguerite Annie Johnson is born in St. Louis, MO
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    Maya Angelou Life

  • Maya is raped by her mother's boyfriend Mr. Freeman

    The effects of this event is oulined in her novel "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

  • Maya Becomes first female African-American cable car conductor

    While a high school student, studies drama and dance on scholarship at the California Labor School, a college for adults. Drops out to become San Francisco's first female African-American cable car conductor.
  • Released only album, "Miss Calypso"

    Released only album, "Miss Calypso"

  • Writes, directs, and performs play "Cabaret for Freedom"

    Writes, produces, directs and performs in a musical revue, "Cabaret for Freedom," to raise money for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
  • Publishes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

    Publishes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

    "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is published. It is later broadcast on national television in 1979, with a script and musical score written by Angelou.

  • Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize

    for "Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie."
  • Appears in "Roots"

    Appears in "Roots"

  • Wins Grammy for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album for "On The Pulse Of Morning."

  • Recites her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" at Clinton inauguration

    at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton, becoming the second poet to participate in a president's inauguration after Robert Frost read at President John F. Kennedy's 1961 ceremony.

  • Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

  • Writes eighth and final Autobiography "Mom & Me & Mom"

    Writes eighth and final Autobiography "Mom & Me & Mom"

    a tribute to her mother and grandmother, is published.