Maya Angelou Life Timeline

By lmoster25

  • Born in St. Louis MO

  • Raped by mother's boyfriend

    Does not speak until 1941

  • Works as Streetcar Conductor

  • Calypso singer and dancer

  • Works with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X

    Through 1968

  • Starts her career as an author

    Publishes the book "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

  • Awarded Chubb Fellowship

  • Publishes "Gather Together in My Name

  • Appointed to Presidential Commission for the International Year of the Woman

  • Publishes "Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas"

  • Acts in the movie Roots

  • Becomes a professor at Wake Forest University

  • Publishes "The Heart of a Woman"

  • Awarded Langston Hughes Award

  • Awarded Crystal Award

  • Acts in Poetic Justice

  • Invited to read a President Clinton's inauguration

  • Dies in Winston-Salem, NC

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