Maya Angelou
Poet, Civil Rights Activist, Author, Activist
Here's a timeline of Angelou's life:
- 1928 - Born in St. Louis, Missouri. Named Marguerite Ann Johnson, nickname Maya by her brother.
- 1931 - Parents get divorced. Maya and her brother were sent to live with their father's mother in Stamps, Arkansas.
- 1935 - Maya and Her brother return to live with their mother in St. Louis.
- 1937 - Maya is sexually assaulted by her mother's boyfriend. The shock made Maya mute and the children were sent back to live with their grandmother once again.
- 1941 - Maya and her brother returned to live with her mother in San Francisco where she attended George Washington High School and studied dance and drama on a scholarship at the California Labor School.
- 1942 - Teacher Bertha Flowers helped Maya to talk again and encouraged her interest in literature
- 1942 - She dropped out of school in her teens to become San Francisco's first African American female cable car conductor
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- 2014 - Dies at the age of 86.
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
–Maya Angelou