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platform to ask for help. Through a source who saw
her speak, she found her grandson and brought him
home.
"Can you imagine the feeling, to be walking out of
a store and see someone with your grandchild's picture on the side of a milk carton or a shopping bag?
It's the most outrageous thing, I mean it's all you
can do to keep from going up to that person who's
got the bagful of potato chips and saying, 'That's
mine!' "
We celebrate this "phenomenal woman" and her
many lives, her vivid words, and her roles as daughter,
mother, and grandmother.

mother's boyfriend while on a visit to St. Louis. After
she testified against the man, several of her uncles
beat him to death. Believing that she had caused the
man's death by speaking his name, Angelou refused
to speak for approximately five years. She attended
public schools in Arkansas and later California. While
still in high school she became the first-ever African
American female streetcar conductor in San Francisco,
California. She gave birth to a son at age sixteen. In
1950 she married Tosh Angelos, a Greek sailor, but the
marriage lasted only a few years.
Later Angelou studied dance and drama and went
on to a career in theater. She appeared in Porgy and
Bess, which gave performances in twenty-two counNow you understand
The bend of my hair,
tries. She also acted in several plays on and off-BroadJust why my head's not bowed. the palm of my hand,
way, including Cabaret for Freedom, which she wrote
I don't shout or jump about
The need for my care. with Godfrey Cambridge. During the early 1960s
Or have to talk real loud.
'Cause I'm a woman
Angelou lived in Cairo, Egypt, where she was the assoWhen you see me passing,
Phenomenally.
ciate editor of The Arab Observer. During this time,
It ought to make you proud.
Phenomenal woman,
she also contributed articles to The Ghanaian Times
I say,
That's me.
and was featured on the Ghanaian Broadcasting
It's in the click of my heels,
Corporation programming in Accra, Ghana. During the
Phenomenal Woman, And Still I Rise, 1978 mid-1960s she became assistant administrator of the
School of Music and Drama at the University of Ghana.
She was the feature editor of the African Review in
Maya Angelou's life story
Accra from 1964 to 1966.
(Excerpted from Encyclopedia of World Biography)

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on
April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. After her parents'
marriage ended, she and her brother, Bailey (who
gave her the name "Maya"), were sent to rural Stamps,
Arkansas, to live with their grandmother, who owned a
general store. Although her grandmother helped her
develop pride and self-confidence, Angelou was devastated when she was raped at the age of eight by her
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Maya Angelou full interview with George Stroumboulopoulos

Du Bois; she joined Malcolm X in planning for an
Organization of Afro-American Unity; and she personally lobbied legislators on behalf of marriage equality-reminding them, "To love someone takes a lot of
courage. So how much more is one challenged when
the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid
you from loving this person'?"
After returning to the United States, civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
requested she serve as northern coordinator for the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Maya Angelou's civil rights legacy

According to John Nichols, "She chronicled the
anti-colonial struggle in Africa (as the only woman
editor of the Arab Observer newspaper); she knew
Nelson Mandela before the South African freedom
fighter began his long captivity; in Accra she was
part of an expatriate community that included W.E.B.

Lori Bitter
Publisher of GRAND and
owner of The Business of
Aging

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