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    Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and died on May 28, 2014 at age 86. As a child, she experienced racism and trauma, including being raped at age 7. She had a difficult childhood but went on to have a successful career as an author, poet, and activist. Some of her major accomplishments included being the first African American woman to have a screenplay turned into a film, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and publishing several acclaimed autobiographies and poetry collections.

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    Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and died on May 28, 2014 at age 86. As a child, she experienced racism and trauma, including being raped at age 7. She had a difficult childhood but went on to have a successful career as an author, poet, and activist. Some of her major accomplishments included being the first African American woman to have a screenplay turned into a film, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and publishing several acclaimed autobiographies and poetry collections.

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    Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and died on May 28, 2014 at age 86. As a child, she experienced racism and trauma, including being raped at age 7. She had a difficult childhood but went on to have a successful career as an author, poet, and activist. Some of her major accomplishments included being the first African American woman to have a screenplay turned into a film, receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and publishing several acclaimed autobiographies and poetry collections.

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    Maya

    Angelou
    Natalia Candelario Tirado
    Marguerite Annie Johnson

    - Maya Angelou born on April 4, - Her parents split up when she was
    1928, in St.Louis, Missouri. very young, and she and her older
    brother, Bailey, were sent to live
    - Died at the age of 86 on May 28, with their father's mother, Anne
    2014. Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas.

    - Angelou had a difficult - She was the first African American


    childhood. to work as a streetcar conductor in
    San Francisco.
    - Maya Angelou was a civil rights
    activist and poet.
    Significant event in their childhood that impact
    their life

    - When she was 7 years old on a visit to her mother, Angelou was
    raped by her mother's boyfriend. As vengeance for the sexual
    assault, Angelou's uncles killed the boyfriend. So traumatized
    by the experience, Angelou stopped talking. She returned to
    Arkansas and spent years as a virtual mute. Also as an African
    American, Angelou experienced firsthand racial prejudices and
    discrimination in Arkansas.
    Education

    She attended George Washington She graduated from Mission


    High School and took dance and High School in the summer of
    drama courses at the 1944 and soon after gave birth
    California Labor School. to her only child, Clyde
    Bailey.
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    Her life after studying
    ● 1950- she performed professionally in the US, Europe,
    and northern Africa, and sold albums of her
    recordings.
    ● 1959- Maya joined the Harlem Writers Guild.
    ● 1969- Angelou published I Know Why the Caged Bird
    Sings, an autobiography of her early life.
    ● 1971- Wrote numerous poetry volumes.
    ● Angelou eventually published six more
    autobiographies, culminating in 2013’s Mom & Me &
    Mom.
    ● In 2012, she was a member of the inaugural class
    inducted into the Wake Forest University Writers Hall
    of Fame.
    Major Achievements
    ● She was honored with the Presidential
    Medal of Freedom in 2010 by President ● She also won a Grammy in 1995, and again in
    2002, for her spoken albums of poetry.
    Barack Obama.
    ● In 1981, Wake Forest University offered
    ● Won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album.
    Angelou the Reynolds Professorship of
    ● She became the first African American
    American Studies.
    woman to have her screenplay turned into a
    ● President Clinton awarded Angelou the
    film with the production of Georgia, National Medal of Arts in 2000.
    Georgia. ● Was awarded more than 30 honorary degrees in
    ● Recognized by many organizations both her lifetime.
    nationally and internationally for her
    contributions to literature.
    Poems
    I Know Why
    On the pulse of the Caged
    Morning Bird Sings

    A Brave and
    Startling
    Truth Still I Rise
    Album :
    Miss
    Calypso
    Movies
    - Georgia Georgia
    Still I Rise
    https://youtu.be/qviM_GnJbOM

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    References
    Caged Bird Legacy.(2021).Maya Angelou. https://www.mayaangelou.com/

    Literature Today- and Yesterday.(2014).[Video file].Youtube.Still I Rise. https://youtu.be/qviM_Gn

    Spring, K.(2017). Women’s History Museum.Maya Angelou. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-

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