Maya Angelou AKA Marguerite Johnson Born: 4-Apr-1928 Birthplace: St. Louis, MO Died: 28-May-2014 Location of death: Winston-Salem, NC Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Cremated
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Black Occupation: Poet Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Raised by her grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas for five years and then returned to her mother, where she was raped by her mother's boyfriend. After journalism work in Africa, Angelou became nationally famous with her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She delivered a poem at Bill Clinton's January 1993 inaugural celebration. Since 1981 Angelou is a lifetime Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Father: Bailey Johnson (naval dietician) Mother: Vivian Baxter Brother: Bailey, Jr. Son: Claude Johnson ("Guy", b. 1945 out of wedlock, see Caged Bird Sings) Husband: Tosh Angelos (sailor, married five years, div. 1952) Husband: Paul Du Feu (m. 1973, div. 1981) Husband: Vusumzi Make (div. 1963)
High School: George Washington High School, San Francisco, CA Professor: American Studies, Wake Forest University (1981)
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Academy of Achievement (1990) Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Honorary American Film Institute Trustee, 1975 Caring Institute Board of Trustees (Honorary) Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Gore 2000 Mothers Against Drunk Driving National Board of Advisors (2003-05) National Leadership PAC National Stroke Association Board of Directors UNICEF Ambassador, 1976 US Holocaust Memorial Museum Council National Medal of Arts 2000 National Women's Hall of Fame Spingarn Medal 1994 St. Louis Walk of Fame Order of the Long Leaf Pine Presidential Medal of Freedom 2010 Raped Risk Factors: Marijuana
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR Down in the Delta (5-Aug-1998)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Under African Skies (22-Jan-2012) · Herself Good Hair (18-Jan-2009) · Herself As Seen Through These Eyes (8-Mar-2008) · Narrator Madea's Family Reunion (24-Feb-2006) How to Make an American Quilt (6-Oct-1995) · Anna The Journey of August King (14-Sep-1995) · Narrator [VOICE] Poetic Justice (23-Jul-1993) · Aunt June
Official Website: http://www.mayaangelou.com/
Author of books:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970, memoir) Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971, poetry) Gather Together in My Name (1974, memoir) Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well (1975, poetry) And Still I Rise (1978, poetry) The Heart of a Woman (1981) Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? (1983, poetry) All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986, memoir) The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994, poetry) A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002)
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