Dr. Maya Angelou become born, Marguerite Johnson on April 24, 1928 in St Louis, Missouri. Her mother and father divorced while she was three years vintage. She, in conjunction with her brother Bailey, went to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas.
While travelling her mom in Chicago, Illinois on the age of seven, Maya turned into molested by way of her mom’s boyfriend. She confided in her brother who told the own family. Consequently, the man become murdered. Maya felt so guilty that for five years she remained mute.
Maya Angelou gained a scholarship to study dance and drama at San Francisco’s Labor School. She dropped out at the age of 14 to end up the fist female African American cable car conductor. Although she again later to finish college, she became pregnant in her senior yr and gave beginning to her son, Guy, a few weeks after her commencement.
After graduation, she took on many menial jobs to elevate her son. Singing and dancing, and writing have been in her heart, even though. She met and married Tosh Angelos, a Greek sailor. She took the call Maya (her brother’s nickname for her) Angelou (a variation of her husband’s call) whilst she became a nightclub singer. Although the marriage failed to last, she saved the name.
She traveled during Europe within the mid 1950’s with a dance troupe performing in a production of “Porgy and Bess.” In 1957 she did a recording of “Calypso Lady” for her first album. She additionally wrote and completed “Cabaret for Freedom.”
Wanting to hone her capabilities as a writer, she joined the Harlem Writers Guild in 1958 in New York. She ultimately have become energetic inside the Civil Rights Movement. She met and married the South African civil rights activist, Vusumzi Make in 1960. They moved to Cairo, Egypt where she have become the editor of an English weekly newspaper.
Maya and her son later moved to Ghana in which she turned into an assistant administrator and trainer at the University of Ghana’s School for Music and Drama. She become also and editor for The African Review and wrote for various courses.
Maya again to america in 1964. She normal the invitation from Dr Martin Luther King invited to serve as the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Dr King become assassinated on her birthday in 1968.
Maya’s first posted e book, “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, is the primary of five autobiographical volumes and tells of her trials and tribulations as a young woman. She continues to write down and act for tv and movie and in 1996 directed the film “Down within the Delta.”
She turned into nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for her 1972 screenplay, Georgia, Georgia. She gained the Presidential Medal of Arts in 2000 and The Lincoln medal in 2008. She has additionally gained 3 Grammy awards.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton asked Dr Maya Angelou to put in writing and recite a poem for him at his inauguration. Her stunning poem, “On the Pulse of the Morning”, became broadcast global.
