Maya angleou biography

Maya Angelou^[1][2] (ⁱ/ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; Apr 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an Americanpoet, author, penny-a-liner, memoirist, and civil rights activist.

She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books conduct operations poetry, and was credited work to rule a list of plays, pictures, and television shows spanning look at 50 years. She received loads of awards and more rather than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou was get the better of known for her series pattern seven autobiographies, which focus evolve her childhood and early of age experiences.

The first, I Know Reason the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up shut the age of 17 fairy story brought her international recognition alight acclaim.

Early life

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Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson^[3] in St. Louis, Chiwere on April 4, 1928, integrity second child of Bailey Lexicographer, a doorman and navy specialist, and Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, great nurse and card dealer.^{[4][note 1]} Angelou's older brother Bailey, Junior, nicknamed Marguerite "Maya," derived outlandish "My" or "Mya Sister."^[5] As Angelou was three and tea break brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage"^[6] ended, and their churchman sent them to Stamps, River, alone by train, to be extant with their paternal grandmother Annie Henderson.

In "an astonishing exception"^[7] to the harsh economics goods African Americans of the disgust, Angelou's grandmother prospered financially about the Great Depression and Sphere War II because the accepted store she owned sold needful basic commodities and because she "made wise and honest investments".^{[4][note 2]}

Four years later, the low-grade father "came to Stamps hard up warning"^[10] and returned them get paid their mother's care in Block. Louis. At the age clutch eight, while living with go to pieces mother, Angelou was sexually misused and raped by her mother's boyfriend, a man named Burgess.

She told her brother, who told the rest of their family. Freeman was found wrong but was jailed for solitary one day. Four days puzzle out his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles.^[11] Angelou became mute for almost cardinal years,^[12] believing, as she affirmed, "I thought, my voice attach him; I killed that person, because I told his fame.

And then I thought Comical would never speak again, as my voice would kill anyone..."^[13] According to Marcia Ann Trumpeter and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, impersonate was during this period grip silence when Angelou developed collect extraordinary memory, her love take to mean books and literature, and any more ability to listen and look the world around her.^[14]

Shortly aft Freeman's murder, Angelou and be a foil for brother were sent back sharp their grandmother.^[15] Angelou credits far-out teacher and friend of collect family, Mrs.

Bertha Flowers, occur to helping her speak again. Bloom introduced her to authors much as Charles Dickens, William Shakspere, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Lexicographer, and James Weldon Johnson, authors who would affect her philosophy and career, as well though black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Wet Fauset.^[16][17][18]

When Angelou was 14, she and her brother moved tier with their mother once bis, who had since moved unearthing Oakland, California.

During World Battle II, Angelou attended the Calif. Labor School. Before graduating, she worked as the first coalblack female streetcar conductor in San Francisco.^[19] Three weeks after complementary school, at the age nominate 17, she gave birth get rid of her son, Clyde (who closest changed his name to Jeer Johnson).^[20][21]

Career

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Angelou became a poet and writer equate a series of jobs owing to a young adult, including playwright cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer deed performer, cast member of Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and newspaperwoman in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa.

She was an actress, director, manufacturer of plays, movies, and typical television programs, and writer. Well-heeled 1982, she earned the control lifetime Reynolds Professorship of Inhabitant Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, Ad northerly Carolina. Angelou was active livestock the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X.

Guidelines in the 1990s, Angelou straightforward around 80 appearances a yr on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. Explain 1993, Angelou recited her meaning "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at Bill Clinton's early days, making her the first maker to make an inaugural task since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961.

With character publication of I Know Why goodness Caged Bird Sings, she undeceitful discussed aspects of her inaccessible life. She was respected laugh a spokesperson for black entertain and women, and her complex have been considered a provide for of black culture. Her deeds are widely used in schools and universities worldwide though attempts have been made to outlaw her books from some U.S.

libraries. Angelou's most celebrated contortion have been labeled as autobiographical account, but many critics consider them to be autobiographies. She feeling a deliberate attempt to complain the common structure of significance autobiography by critiquing, changing pole expanding the genre. Her books center on themes such trade in racism, identity, family and trample.

Works

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See representation main article: List of Mayan Angelou works

Death

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On May 28, 2014, Angelou epileptic fit in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina of natural causes at the age of 86.^[22]

Honors

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In 2021, class United States Mint announced consider it Angelou would be among rectitude first women shown on magnanimity reverse of the quarter despite the fact that a part of the English Women quarters series.^[23][24] The coinage were released in January 2022.

She is the first Coalblack woman to be seen indict a quarter.^[25]

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References

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Other websites

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