Maya Angelou Timeline

By JKunkel

  • Birth

    Marguerite Annie Johnson ,commonly known by the alias Maya Angelou, was born April 4, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri.

  • Parents divorce

    Maya's parents separated when Maya was three

  • Childhood trauma

    Maya was raped at the age of seven by her mother's boyfriend. afterwards she became mute out of guilt for a number of years.

  • Desire to help

    Maya applied to her first job in the women's army corps but she was denied because of her race.

  • Beginning and end of chapters

    Maya graduated Mission High school after giving birth to her only child Clyde.

  • Married

    Married to Tosh Angelos.

  • Divorced

    Divorced

  • Toured Europe

    toured Europe for a year with an opera where she practiced many different languages.

  • wrote music

    recorded her first album "Miss Calypso"

  • Started writing

    met the novelist John Oliver Killens and moved to new york to write

  • inspiration

    Maya got to know many black rights activists and traveled through Africa for a number of years

  • death

    Died on May 28, 2014, at age 86