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Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published 15 books including 7 autobiographies and received a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Angelou had an illustrious career as an author, poet, producer, director, and activist. She was known for her speeches and poems that focused on celebrating life and black culture.
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Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie
Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents
divorced when she was only three and she was
sent with her brother Bailey to live with their
grandmother in the small town of Stamps,
Arkansas. In Stamps, the young girl experienced
the racial discrimination that was the legally
enforced way of life in the American South, but
she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old-
fashioned courtesy of traditional African American
life. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in
her the values that informed her later life and career. She enjoyed a close
relationship with her brother. Unable to pronounce her name because of a
stutter, Bailey called her "My" for "My sister." A few years later, when he
read a book about the Maya Indians, he began to call her "Maya," and the
name stuck.
At age seven, while visiting her mother in Chicago, she was sexually
molested by her mother's boyfriend. Too ashamed to tell any of the adults
in her life, she confided in her brother. When she later heard the news that
an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man.
She fell silent and did not speak for five years.
Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their
mother in San Francisco. Maya attended Mission High School and won a
scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School,
where she was exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later
political activism. She dropped out of school in her teens to become San
Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor. She later
returned to high school, but became pregnant in her senior year and
graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son, Guy. She left home at
16 and took on the difficult life of a single mother, supporting herself and
her son by working as a waitress and cook, but she had not given up on
her talents for music, dance, performance and poetry.
In 1952, she married a Greek sailor named
Anastasios Angelopulos. When she began
her career as a nightclub singer, she took the
professional name Maya Angelou, combining
her childhood nickname with a form of her
husband's name. Although the marriage did
not last, her performing career flourished. She
toured Europe with a production of the opera
Porgy and Bess in 1954 and 1955. She
studied modern dance with Martha Graham,
danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety
shows and recorded her first record album,
Calypso Lady (1957).
She had composed song lyrics and poems for many years, and by the end
of the 1950s was increasingly interested in developing her skills as a writer.
She moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and
took her place among the growing number of young black writers and
artists associated with the Civil Rights Movement. She acted in the historic
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Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie
Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Her parents
divorced when she was only three and she was
sent with her brother Bailey to live with their
grandmother in the small town of Stamps,
Arkansas. In Stamps, the young girl experienced
the racial discrimination that was the legally
enforced way of life in the American South, but
she also absorbed the deep religious faith and old-
fashioned courtesy of traditional African American
life. She credits her grandmother and her extended family with instilling in
her the values that informed her later life and career. She enjoyed a close
relationship with her brother. Unable to pronounce her name because of a
stutter, Bailey called her "My" for "My sister." A few years later, when he
read a book about the Maya Indians, he began to call her "Maya," and the
name stuck.
At age seven, while visiting her mother in Chicago, she was sexually
molested by her mother's boyfriend. Too ashamed to tell any of the adults
in her life, she confided in her brother. When she later heard the news that
an uncle had killed her attacker, she felt that her words had killed the man.
She fell silent and did not speak for five years.
Maya began to speak again at 13, when she and her brother rejoined their
mother in San Francisco. Maya attended Mission High School and won a
scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco's Labor School,
where she was exposed to the progressive ideals that animated her later
political activism. She dropped out of school in her teens to become San
Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor. She later
returned to high school, but became pregnant in her senior year and
graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son, Guy. She left home at
16 and took on the difficult life of a single mother, supporting herself and
her son by working as a waitress and cook, but she had not given up on
her talents for music, dance, performance and poetry.
In 1952, she married a Greek sailor named
Anastasios Angelopulos. When she began
her career as a nightclub singer, she took the
professional name Maya Angelou, combining
her childhood nickname with a form of her
husband's name. Although the marriage did
not last, her performing career flourished. She
toured Europe with a production of the opera
Porgy and Bess in 1954 and 1955. She
studied modern dance with Martha Graham,
danced with Alvin Ailey on television variety
shows and recorded her first record album,
Calypso Lady (1957).
She had composed song lyrics and poems for many years, and by the end
of the 1950s was increasingly interested in developing her skills as a writer.
She moved to New York, where she joined the Harlem Writers Guild and
took her place among the growing number of young black writers and
artists associated with the Civil Rights Movement. She acted in the historic
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Maya angelou
- 2. Background Born in St.Louis, Missouri on April 4, 1928 as Marguerite Johnson Was raised in Stamps, Arkansas and St.Louis She has one son named Clyde, his nickname is Guy who was born in 1944 She was married twice: Tosh Angelos (1949-1952) and Paul Du Feu (1973-1980) Known for her poetry
- 3. Her Life Dr.Angelou is an author, novellist, producer, poet, director, playwright, dancer, civil rights activist, and historian. She graduated with honors from Lafayette Country Training school in Stamps in 1940 Got a scholarship to dance with Pearl Primus in 1952
- 4. Her work She has published 15 books, 7 of which are autobiographies She has directed 1 film called Down in the Delta She narrated and/or wrote poetry for three films: The Black Candle, Poetic Justice and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- 5. Her Books Letter to My Daughter Great Food, All Day Long I know why the caged bird sings I Shall Not be Moved Gather together in my name Phenomenal Women Celebrations: Rituals of Peace and Prayer Singin and Swingin and Getting Merry Like Christmas A Song Flung from Heaven My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem Hallelujah: The Welcome Table Still I Rise All Gods Children Need Traveling Shoes The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
- 7. Poetry Works Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Diiie Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well And Still I Rise Poems: Maya Angelou Now Sheba Sings the Song I Shall Not Be Moved "On the Pulse of the Morning" The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"
- 8. Giving Speech at Inauguration
- 9. Awards and Recognitions Pulitzer Prize nominee Appointed a bicentennial commissioner Honorary degree from Smith and Mills Colleges Nominated for Tony Award for performances Emmy nomination Honored with Matrix Award given by Women in Communication, Inc. National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year appointment from President Carter
- 10. Social Media Use Maya Angelou uses different types of social media Facebook Twitter Blogs A site for her foundation She uses social media to promote her books, poems, playwrights and lectures.
- 11. Life Today She is now a professor at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, NC She got a lifetime appointment as Reynolds Professor of American Studies Received over 30 honorary degrees
- 12. Sources http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/8 7 http://mayaangelou.com/ http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/ canam/angelou.htm