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Birth year
born Marguerite Johnson on April 4, in St. Louis, Missouri -
Moving
Maya and her brother Bailey sent to stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother, Annie Henderson -
School
Graduates from Lafayette Training School; she and Bailey move to California to live with their mother -
Work
Maya decides to take a year off from school to work so she worked as a Trolley car conductor on Market Street Railway -
School
she graduates from high school in San Francisco; her son Clyde (Guy) Johnson is born -
Marriage
Marries Tosh Angelos, they divorce several years later -
Career
Performs at the Purple Onion in San Francisco; begins to use the name Maya Angelou -
Work part 2
Tours twenty two nations with the touring company of Porgy and Bess till 1955 -
Work part 3
Appears in the off-broadway play, Calypso Heat Wave; records Miss Calypso, an album for Liberty Records -
career
Moves to New York with Guy and Joins the Harlem Writers Guild -
Honors
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 15: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) kisses poet and author Maya Angelou after giving her the 2010 Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House
