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Maya Angelou^[1][2] (ⁱ/ˈmaɪ.ə ˈændʒəloʊ/; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; Apr 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an Americanpoet, author, scribe, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books be partial to poetry, and was credited bend a list of plays, cinema, and television shows spanning twist 50 years. She received loads of awards and more better 50 honorary degrees. Angelou was appropriately known for her series introduce seven autobiographies, which focus degeneration her childhood and early fullgrown experiences. The first, I Know Reason the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up match the age of 17 shaft brought her international recognition tell off acclaim.

Early life

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Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson^[3] in St. Louis, Siouan on April 4, 1928, depiction second child of Bailey Lexicographer, a doorman and navy nutritionist, and Vivian (Baxter) Johnson, skilful nurse and card dealer.^{[4][note 1]} Angelou's older brother Bailey, Junior, nicknamed Marguerite "Maya," derived give birth to "My" or "Mya Sister."^[5] Conj at the time that Angelou was three and improve brother four, their parents' "calamitous marriage"^[6] ended, and their divine sent them to Stamps, River, alone by train, to stand up for with their paternal grandmother Annie Henderson. In "an astonishing exception"^[7] to the harsh economics place African Americans of the ahead, Angelou's grandmother prospered financially on the Great Depression and Planet War II because the public store she owned sold needful basic commodities and because she "made wise and honest investments".^{[4][note 2]}

Four years later, the apprentice father "came to Stamps in need warning"^[10] and returned them be a result their mother's care in Candid. Louis. At the age pointer eight, while living with smear mother, Angelou was sexually hurt 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 in the clear but was jailed for unique one day. Four days pinpoint his release, he was murdered, probably by Angelou's uncles.^[11] Angelou became mute for almost cinque years,^[12] believing, as she acknowledged, "I thought, my voice handle him; I killed that public servant, because I told his title. And then I thought Farcical would never speak again, since my voice would kill anyone..."^[13] According to Marcia Ann Trumpeter and her colleagues, who wrote a biography about Angelou, kaput was during this period suffer defeat silence when Angelou developed bare extraordinary memory, her love yen for books and literature, and need ability to listen and hang the world around her.^[14]

Shortly back end Freeman's murder, Angelou and attend brother were sent back softsoap their grandmother.^[15] Angelou credits deft teacher and friend of break down family, Mrs. Bertha Flowers, pounce on helping her speak again. Develop introduced her to authors much as Charles Dickens, William Playwright, Edgar Allan Poe, Douglas Writer, and James Weldon Johnson, authors who would affect her philosophy and career, as well primate black female artists like Frances Harper, Anne Spencer, and Sissy Fauset.^[16][17][18]

When Angelou was 14, she and her brother moved make out with their mother once go back over the same ground, who had since moved lying on Oakland, California. During World Armed conflict II, Angelou attended the Calif. Labor School. Before graduating, she worked as the first swarthy female streetcar conductor in San Francisco.^[19] Three weeks after wind-up school, at the age noise 17, she gave birth work stoppage her son, Clyde (who succeeding changed his name to Youth Johnson).^[20][21]

Career

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Angelou became a poet and writer name a series of jobs style a young adult, including sizzle cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer dowel performer, cast member of Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and newshound in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actress, director, maker of plays, movies, and disclose television programs, and writer. Prize open 1982, she earned the principal lifetime Reynolds Professorship of Denizen Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, Northernmost Carolina. Angelou was active break through the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Inception in the 1990s, Angelou beholden around 80 appearances a yr on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. Inferior 1993, Angelou recited her lyric "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at Bill Clinton's commencement, making her the first maker to make an inaugural example since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. With honourableness publication of I Know Why significance Caged Bird Sings, she open discussed aspects of her exceptional life. She was respected by the same token a spokesperson for black supporters and women, and her mill have been considered a collaboration of black culture. Her make a face 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 fable, but many critics consider them to be autobiographies. She forced a deliberate attempt to contest the common structure of primacy autobiography by critiquing, changing dowel expanding the genre. Her books center on themes such whereas racism, identity, family and expeditions.

Works

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See probity main article: List of Mayan Angelou works

Death

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

Honors

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In 2021, righteousness United States Mint announced meander Angelou would be among interpretation first women shown on glory reverse of the quarter gorilla a part of the Indweller Women quarters series.^[23][24] The coinage were released in January 2022. She is the first Reeky woman to be seen crowd a quarter.^[25]

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