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Marguerite Ann Johnson born in St.Louis ,Missouri she was born to Vivian Baxter Johnson and Bailey Johnson
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Her parents ended there marriage Maya and her brother left to go live with there mother husbands mom(Annie Johnson Henderson) for a while in Stamps,Arkansas
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Maya angelou and her brother are moving back to St. louis , Missouri live with back with mom.
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Maya was raped and abused by her mother's boyfriend Mr. Freeman sent back t again to the Grandma. At age seven she refused to speak for five years.
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She went to San Fransico to live with her mom Mayaa attended George Washington highschool studied dance and drama on a scholarship at California Labor school
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Ms. Bertha Flowers helped Maya talk again and encouraged her to have interest in literature
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The same year she dropped out of highschool to become San Fransico's first black afrcan american to become a female cable car conductor
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She went back to school to finish and became pregnant and graduated a few weeks before she went in labor. She left home to raise her son Guy she started working as a waitress and cook.
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Maya married a man name Tosh Angelos but i quickly failed and the same year she began her career at a nightclub singer duringthis time she took tthe name Maya Angelou
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Toured in a production of Progy and Bess
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she started to write poetry moved to New york where she joined Harlem writers guild.
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Involved with civil rights activists
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Maya Angelou married Paul du Feu and moved with him and her son to Sonoma, California. She then worked on her writing and acting
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she divorced paul du feu
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met Oprah Winfrey and became friends and her mentor
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Performed the poemOn the Pulse of Morning at former president Bill Clinton inaugration.
