Maya Angelou was an unstoppable woman. With a tough childhood she found a way to pick herself back and accomplish so many amazing things. Maya Angelou was an unreligious woman moving from job to job, she was trying to support a family at sixteen years old. After a while she found her religion and became a christian or as she liked to call it a child of God. There is so much more to her story. She had several different jobs, a crazy childhood, and much more..
Born April 4, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri, Maya was a huge part of our history. She was the first African American woman to write a nonfiction best seller. That was not her first job though. Through-out her life she was a singer, dancer, waiter, cook, screenwriter, cable car instructor, (most importantly) author, and poet. She won many awards as an author and poet. Not only that she was the first African American woman cable car instructor. She only had this job for a couple of months. At sixteen she gave birth to a boy who she named Guy. To support her son she began to work as a waitress and also a …show more content…
Maya’s parents separated at a very young age. Her and her brother , Bailey, were moved to their Grandma's house in Stamps Arkansas. At 7 years old Bailey and Maya visited their mom. Her mother's boyfriend at the time raped Maya. He died not long after that and Maya from that point on Maya would only talk to brother and that lasted for three years because she thought that her words killed people. For high school she was moved to George Washington High where there were only two other African Americans in the whole school. When she was fifteen she ran away from home after an argument between Maya's real mom and her dad's girlfriend. For a few months Maya lived in a junkyard with a small group of other runaway homeless teenagers. After she came home and went back to school she met a man at sixteen. They had a child together and she named him
Born April 4, 1928 in St. Louis Missouri, Maya was a huge part of our history. She was the first African American woman to write a nonfiction best seller. That was not her first job though. Through-out her life she was a singer, dancer, waiter, cook, screenwriter, cable car instructor, (most importantly) author, and poet. She won many awards as an author and poet. Not only that she was the first African American woman cable car instructor. She only had this job for a couple of months. At sixteen she gave birth to a boy who she named Guy. To support her son she began to work as a waitress and also a …show more content…
Maya’s parents separated at a very young age. Her and her brother , Bailey, were moved to their Grandma's house in Stamps Arkansas. At 7 years old Bailey and Maya visited their mom. Her mother's boyfriend at the time raped Maya. He died not long after that and Maya from that point on Maya would only talk to brother and that lasted for three years because she thought that her words killed people. For high school she was moved to George Washington High where there were only two other African Americans in the whole school. When she was fifteen she ran away from home after an argument between Maya's real mom and her dad's girlfriend. For a few months Maya lived in a junkyard with a small group of other runaway homeless teenagers. After she came home and went back to school she met a man at sixteen. They had a child together and she named him