| 1928 | Apr 4, 1928 - Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. When Maya Angelou was just eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and for the next five years was mute. At 16, she gave birth to a son. Maya Angelou is best ...Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928. When Maya Angelou was just eight, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and for the next five years was mute. At 16, she gave birth to a son. Maya Angelou is best known for her autobiographical books: 'All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes', 'The Heart of a Woman', 'Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas', 'Gather Together in My Name', and 'I Know Why the ...  Show more  Show lessprofiles.incredible-people.com/maya-angelou/
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| 1969 | 1969 - Published in 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is the first of five autobiographical works which explore Maya Angelou's extraordinary life. She was one of the women honored at Oprah's Legend's Ball. bullet Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize ...Published in 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou is the first of five autobiographical works which explore Maya Angelou's extraordinary life. She was one of the women honored at Oprah's Legend's Ball. bullet Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved, reveals the lasting impact of the ravages of slavery. Set outside of Cincinnati, Ohio in the late 1800s, Sethe, Denver, and Paul D. merge past and literary present in this unusual tale. Show more Show lesswww.americandreamer.net/bushwb/apweb/apnovels/novels.htm
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| 1993 | Jan 21, 1993 - The poem [Maya Angelou] read to the nation yesterday stressed the huge variety of voices in this country and the world, ... He added: "Maya Angelou is to Robert Frost as Bill Clinton is to [Kennedy]." George Garrett, who thought the poem was incoherent but well- meaning - and would ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/72100370.html?dids=72100370:72100370&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date...Maya+Angelou's...
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| 1994 | Dec 2, 1994 - On April 26, Tempo profiled Rev. Fred Phelps, 64, of Topeka, Kan., who travels around the country protesting what he calls "the sodomite agenda"-that is, anything Phelps believes promotes homosexuality. He has picketed the funerals of journalist Randy Shilts, who died of AIDS in ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24106918.html?dids=24106918:24106918&FMT=CITE& FMTS=CITE:FT&type=current&date=Dec...MAYA+ANGELOU...
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| 1995 | Mar 23, 1995 - She prefers to be addressed as Ms. Angelou or Dr. Angelou, and frankly, she can be called whatever she wants because she is who she is - Maya Angelou. In her 66 years, she has been many things aside from Dr. Angelou or Ms. Angelou. As a child, she was a victim of sexual abuse and as a ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ST/lib00155,0EAF8FEEF738AD89.html
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| 1997 | Mar 13, 1997 - "Sometimes, people make the mistake of thinking in order to be heard, you have to lift your voice and put a kind of shrillness and shrewishness in the voice. I don't think that's so at all," says Angelou(Maya Angelou), who has reached millions through her books, poetry and speeches. ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/11240922.html?dids=11240922:11240922&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date...MAYA+ANGELOU...
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| 1998 | Dec 25, 1998 - By DENENE MILLNER. Yeah, the bones get achy, and you tire easily and nobody treats you with the respect afforded, say, a 40-year-old. But Lord knows and so does Maya Angelou that life hardly ends at age 70. In fact, suggest anything of the sort to Angelou and you'll earn a serious ... www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/1998/12/25/1998-12-25_maya_angelou___delta__queen_. html
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| 2002 | May 11, 2002 - "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" is a song of the '60s. In the first few pages, [Maya Angelou] writes of leaving Africa in 1965 to return to America and work with Malcolm X to establish the Organization of African-American Unity. She stopped in New York, phoned Malcolm X from Kennedy ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/119192655.html?dids=119192655:119192655&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current...of...Maya+Angelou...
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| 2006 | Jan 31, 2006 - Poet Maya Angelou remembered her friend Coretta Scott King as a devoted wife, loving mother and a model citizen. "It's a bleak morning for me and for many people and yet it's a great morning because we have a chance to look at her and see what she did and who she was," Angelou told ... www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/BlackHistory/story?id=1560374
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| 2008 | Jul 22, 2008 - American presidential candidates are advised to campaign in poetry but to govern in prose. In the story of the 2008 primary race so far, Barack Obama has been the poet of the stump, spinning his appeal to the voters with a natural, preacherly rhetoric none of his rivals could match. ... www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/20/poetryreviews.hillaryclinton?gusrc=rss&feed=global
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