Maya angelou- all about angelou
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On April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri, Maya Angelou was born. Raised there and also in Stamps, Arkansas. She always loved the arts. She won a scholarship that allowed her to go to San Francisco’s Labor School so she could study dance and drama. After she turned 14, she decided to drop out of school in order to be a cable car conductor, which made her the first African-American female to be one. Later in her life, she went back to finish high school and soon after she graduated, she gave birth to her son who she named, Guy. She was a single mother at this time and she was raising that boy all by herself. She had to work multiple jobs to support her son. She got a job as a waitress and a cook. Little did she know that her love for the arts would soon become a huge part of her life. In 1954 and 55 she was given the amazing opportunity to tour Europe while performing in the production on Porgy and Bess. She was able to do many things like recording her first album in 1957, dancing with Alvin Ailey on television after studying dance with Martha Graham.
Maya Angelou moved to New York in 1958 where she continued to accomplish more things. She wrote and even performed Cabaret for Freedom, she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, and she even acted in Off-Broadway productions of Jean Genet’s The Blacks which became historic. Two years later she moved to Cairo, Egypt in order to be the editor of the English language weekly The Arab Observer. A year later she moved to Ghana where she became a teacher at the University of Ghana’s School of Music and Drama. She also wrote for The Ghanaian Times and was a feature editor of The African Review.
Maya Angelou was a very talented person, and not just for the arts. She was able to master the languages of French, Spanish, Italian, the West African language of Fanti, and even Arabic. She returned to the United States with Malcolm X to help him build a new Organization of African American Unity in 1964.Not very long after she returned to the United States, Malcolm was assassinated. She then was asked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to serve as Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated on Maya Angelou’s birthday. She was absolutely devastated. Since both of her good friends were assassinated, she has become a much stronger woman. She has appeared on television multiple times and she was in a few films as well. She has served in two separate presidential committees, in the year 2000 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts and also the Lincoln Medal eight (8) years later. On top of all of that, she has also won three (3) Grammy Awards. She was asked by President Clinton is she would compose a poem for her to read when he was inaugurated in 1993. This event was broadcasted live around the world. That famous poem was called “On the Pulse of the Morning”.
Maya Angelou is a wonderful woman who to this day still continues to inspire us all and she continues to write heartwarming poetry that steals are hearts.
-All information for this page was received from:
http://mayaangelou.com/bio/
Maya Angelou moved to New York in 1958 where she continued to accomplish more things. She wrote and even performed Cabaret for Freedom, she joined the Harlem Writers Guild, and she even acted in Off-Broadway productions of Jean Genet’s The Blacks which became historic. Two years later she moved to Cairo, Egypt in order to be the editor of the English language weekly The Arab Observer. A year later she moved to Ghana where she became a teacher at the University of Ghana’s School of Music and Drama. She also wrote for The Ghanaian Times and was a feature editor of The African Review.
Maya Angelou was a very talented person, and not just for the arts. She was able to master the languages of French, Spanish, Italian, the West African language of Fanti, and even Arabic. She returned to the United States with Malcolm X to help him build a new Organization of African American Unity in 1964.Not very long after she returned to the United States, Malcolm was assassinated. She then was asked by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to serve as Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated on Maya Angelou’s birthday. She was absolutely devastated. Since both of her good friends were assassinated, she has become a much stronger woman. She has appeared on television multiple times and she was in a few films as well. She has served in two separate presidential committees, in the year 2000 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Arts and also the Lincoln Medal eight (8) years later. On top of all of that, she has also won three (3) Grammy Awards. She was asked by President Clinton is she would compose a poem for her to read when he was inaugurated in 1993. This event was broadcasted live around the world. That famous poem was called “On the Pulse of the Morning”.
Maya Angelou is a wonderful woman who to this day still continues to inspire us all and she continues to write heartwarming poetry that steals are hearts.
-All information for this page was received from:
http://mayaangelou.com/bio/