MAYA ANGELOU SERIES

Angelou was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. In 1982, she earned the first lifetime Reynolds Professorship of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was an actress, director, producer of plays, movies, and public television programs, and writer.

MAYA ANGELOU SERIES

Career Īngelou became a poet and writer after a series of jobs as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. Three weeks after completing school, at the age of 17, she gave birth to her son, Clyde (who later changed his name to Guy Johnson). Before graduating, she worked as the first black female streetcar conductor in San Francisco. During World War II, Angelou attended the California Labor School. When Angelou was 14, she and her brother moved in with their mother once again, who had since moved to Oakland, California. Flowers introduced her to authors such as Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Johnson, and James Weldon Johnson, authors who would affect her life and career, as well as black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Jessie Fauset. Bertha Flowers, with helping her speak again. Angelou credits a teacher and friend of her family, Mrs. Shortly after Freeman's murder, Angelou and her brother were sent back to their grandmother. And then I thought I would never speak again, because my voice would kill anyone.' According to Marcia Ann Gillespie and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, it was during this period of silence when Angelou developed her extraordinary memory, her love for books and literature, and her ability to listen and observe the world around her. Angelou became mute for almost five years, believing, as she stated, 'I thought, my voice killed him I killed that man, because I told his name. Four days after his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles. Freeman was found guilty but was jailed for only one day.

She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. At the age of eight, while living with her mother, Angelou was sexually abused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Freeman.

Four years later, the children's father 'came to Stamps without warning' and returned them to their mother's care in St.

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