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She was born on this day in St. Louis, Missouri. Her real name was Marguerite Johnson. She's the second child of Bailey Jonhson and Vivian Johnson.
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This is the time span of Maya Angelou
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Maya's parents had divorced from their deadly, hectic marrage. Maya and her broter moved to Stamps, Arkansas woth their grandmother, Mrs. Annie Henderson. She was very strist with them but she always showed them love and gave them everything they needed.
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Maya and her brother, Bailey Johnson Jr., went back to St. Louis to live with their mother and her mother's boyfriend.
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Maya was raped by her mother's boyfriend. Instead of Maya telling her mother she decided to tell her brother. Once she did this her brother told her he told his mother and she went to the police. He only had to spend a short time in jail. After all the shock Maya went through she didn't talk to anyone, and became mute. After all this happened the children had to go live their grandmother once again.
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Maya and her brother move back in with their mother in San Francisco. Once they're back with their mother they go to school. Maya begins to pursue her career in drama and dance at Washington High School and a scholarship at California Labor School.
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One of Maya's teachers, Bertha Flowers, tries to help Maya to speak again.
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May adropped put of school to work as a cable car conductor. She was the first African-American woman to have this job!
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Maya went back to high school, but a few weeks after she graduated she a son and named him Guy. She tried very hard to give her son everything he needed. She took many jobs some of which as a waitress and a cook.
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She got married to this Greek sailer, Tosh Angelos, but the marriage only lasted for a short amount of time.
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Maya began her career as a night club singer/dancer. Around this time she started to take the name of Maya angelou.
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Maya toured in Europe and Africa in the musical production of Porgy and Bess.
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Maya recorded her first album, Calypso Lady.
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Maya joined the Harlem Writers Guild in NYC and then began to develop her passion for writing poetry.
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Maya started to work with civil rights activist groups and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. appointed her as the leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
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Maya met a civil rights activist, Vusumzi Make, for South Africa. The couple and her son move to Cairo, Eygpt and while Maya is over there she works for the Arab Observer as an editor. Her relationship with Make did not last long unfortunately.
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She moved to Ghana and worked for the university over there as an assissistant administrator for 3 years.
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Maya returns to America and she begins to assist Malcom X with civil rights movements for African-Americans.
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Maya begins to write her autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings". Also, she writes a PBS television series called, Black, Blues, Black. During this year Malcon X, a very close friend of Maya's, was assassinated.
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Maya Angelou's frist autobiography, "I Know Why THe Caged Brid Sings," is published.
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Maya receives this award because the people in Yale felt she deserved it. This award is normally given to those that the college believes has been or taken a large role in what they do.
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Maya married Paul du Feu. She later moved with him and her son to Sonoma, California. She then worked on her writing and acting.
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Maya published, "Gather Together in My Name".
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Maya published, "Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas".
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Maya divorces her husband,
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One of Maya's autobiographies, It talks about how she and her son moved with her husband at the time. She also talks about what her relationship is between her and hre son.
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Maya Angelou reads her poem On the Pulse of Morning at inauguration of President Bill Clinton.
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Another one of Maya's autobiographies. It explains what Maya has done when she was in Africa. It ends when she writes about how she lost her son in a horrible car accident.
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This is the sixth and last of Maya's autobiographies. It talks about what Maya felt when she came back to America. It also talks about how Maya began to invovle herself with civil rights activists and the pain she felt when when Malcom X was killed.
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Maya receives the Mother Teresa Award. This award is a way to recognize those who help the world with what they do. Many who receive this award consider it one of the greast achievments they have ever be given.
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Maya writes a poem in honor of Michael Jackson following his death. The poem is read by Queen Latifah at the memorial honoring Jackson.
