![]() ![]() ![]() But more than likely if you do dare, what you get are marvelous return. "The theme shows that people can survive with courage and dignity-even in hostile environments." Life will give you experiences, and these experiences may not always be pleasant, but nobody promised you a rose garden. Her first autobiography, “I know Why the Caged Bird Sings" was published in 1970. Returning to California at 38, she wrote and narrated a 10-part KQED educational television series called "Blacks, Blues, Black" which highlighted African traditions still current in American life at the age of 40. There she worked as an administrative assistant at the School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana's Institute of African Studies. ![]() In 1962, after leaving her husband Vusumzi Make, a freedom fighter from South Africa, Maya and her son moved to West Africa (Accra). Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was one of her favorite books. She helped Malcolm X with the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), participated in the Harlem Writers' Guild and helped organize the Cultural Association of Women of African Heritage, was appointed National Ambassador for the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).Ī gourmet cook, Maya Angelou collected more than 100 cookbooks, loved foods such as "lamb curry with side dishes of fresh pineapple, tomatoes, papaya, and mangos." Her favorite authors included James Weldon Johnson ( "Lift Every Voice and Sing") Paul Lauren Dunbar, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. In the 1950s, following her marriage to Tosh Angelos, a music lover and sailor of Greek origin whom she’d met at the Melrose Record Shop, she changed her last name to Angelou. She became a madam at 18, renting a house to two prostitutes and even later worked as a prostitute herself. In 1945, Maya Angelou graduated from Mission High School in and gave birth to her son, Clyde Bailey (Guy) Johnson. Fearing that her voice led to outcome, she'd stopped speaking to anyone except Bailey. His attorney was able was able to have him released that same day, hours later he was murdered. She eventually testified in his trial, and he was sentenced to one year and one day in jail. It was a town where black patients had to find black doctors and black dentists but none were to be found.Īt eight-years-old,she was raped by her mother's boyfriend, Mr. Stamps was a segregated town with the black residents living in an area called the "Quarters," and whites in a separate section divided by a set of railroad tracks and Red River. Dinner might include buttered biscuits, fried corn cakes, pork sausage, green beans and homegrown fruit. For breakfast on Sundays, Momma Annie would make eggs, fried potatoes and onions, yellow corn, fried fish, and biscuits covered with butter. She made meat pies, offered cold lemonade and selling homemade meals to workers at the local lumber mill. Momma Annie, as she was called, worked until early morning frying ham and boiling chickens. were raised by their grandmother Momma Henderson in Stamps, Arkansas following their parents' divorce. Louis, Missouri to Viviane Baxter Johnson, a card dealer, and Bailey Johnson, a hotel doorman. She was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on Apin St. She was the first African-American woman to recite her poetry at a US presidential inauguration, the first African-American woman to make the non-fiction bestseller’s list, the first African-American woman to have an original screenplay produced for the movie Georgia, Georgia in 1972. ![]() Considered one of the greatest writers in the United States, Maya Angelou was the first African-American to work on the streetcars of San Francisco (working for the Market Street Railway Company). ![]()
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