Maya Angelou Flashcards
(41 cards)
Real name
Marguerite Annie Johnson
Parents
Balley and Vivian Baxter Johnson
Birthdate
April 4,1928
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri
Her parents divorced when she was only_____ years old
3
Maya and her younger ________ were sent to live with their grandmother in_______
Bailey
stamps, Arkansas
Maya was sexually molested by her mother’s boyfriend at the age of
7
Maya and her brother returned to live with her mother in _______ where she attended _________ and studied dance and drama on a scholarship at the __________
1941
San Francisco
George Washington High School
California Labor School
helped Maya to talk again and encouraged her interest in literature
1942
Teacher Bertha Flowers
She dropped out of school in her teens to become San Francisco’s first _______
1942
African American female cable car conductor
Maya returned to high school, but became pregnant and graduated a few weeks before giving birth to her son, Guy. She left home to bring up her son as a single mother working as a waitress and cook
1943
She married a Greek sailor named _________ but the marriage quickly failed
1952
Tosh Angelos
She began her career as a _________ and during this time took the name Maya Angelou
1952
nightclub singer
Toured in a production of __________
1954/5
Porgy and Bess
Recorded the album called
1957
Calypso Lady
Developed her skills in writing poetry and moved to New York, where she joined the
1958
Harlem Writers Guild
Became involved with Civil Rights Activists
1959
At the request of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Maya
Angelou became the northern coordinator for the __________
1959
Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
She met the South African civil rights activist _________ and in 1960, the couple and Guy moved, to Cairo, Egypt.
In Cairo, Maya Angelou worked as editor of the English
language weekly The Arab Observer. She later moved to Ghana
1960
Vusumzi
Make
Returned to America hoping to help ________ build his
new Organization of African American Unity
1964
Malcolm X
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is published
1970
Maya Angelou married ________ and moved with him
and her son to Sonoma, California. She then worked on her
writing and acting
1973
Paul du Feu
Malcolm X is assassinated and Maya began working on her
Autobiographical book
1968
‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings‘
Published Gather Together in My Name Published Singin’
and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
1974
