Maya Angelou

By tkgallagher24

  • Birth

    Maya Angelou (Marguerite Johnson) is born in St. Louis, MS.

  • Leaves School

    Maya Angelou drops out of school to become a cable car driver at fourteen years old.

  • Guy Johnson

    Angelou gives birth to her son as a single mother.

  • Name Change

    Maya Angelou changes her name to Maya Angelou.

  • Move to New York

    Angelou moves to New York and joins the Harlem Writers’ Guild.

  • Meeting MLK

    Maya Angelou meets Martin Luther King Jr.

  • SCLC

    Maya Angelou becomes a coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

  • I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings

    Angelou publishes "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."

  • Carter Appointment

    Angelou was appointed to the National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year.

  • Wake Forest University

    Angelou is named the Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University.

  • Inaugural Poem

    Angelou delivers “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s Inauguration.

  • Death

    Maya Angelou dies.