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Marguerite Ann Johnson was born
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She became the first African American woman to work as a streetcar conductor in San Francisco
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She graduated from Mission High School
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She had her son Clyde Bailey Johnson
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She married Tosh Angelos
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She joined the Harlem Writers Guild
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She published her first book "I Know Where the Caged Birds Sing"
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She became the first African American woman to have her screenplay turned into a film
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Wake Forest University offered her the Reynolds Professorship of American Studies
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President Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts
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President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Maya Angelou died
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The U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp in her legacy