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Maya Angelou

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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