Maya Angelou

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Maya Angelou

• ByAshley Lake

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Young Maya Angelou

• This Maya Angelou at a young age.
• BornApril 4,1982
• Parents
• Father-Baily Johnson
• Mother-Vivian Johnson
• Brother-Baily Johnson,Jr.
• After parents divorce, she went to live with her
  grandparents in Arkansas.
• She attended public school and studied arts and
  drama.

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Older Maya Angelou

• Maya is hailed for her great singing voice.
• Maya writes books and poems.
• She is a poet,educator,best selling author,an
  actress, and many more.

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Awards and Achievements

• Awards-
• Journal women of the year.
• Awarded a Matrix.
• Pulitzer Prize Nomination
• Tony Award Nomination
• NAACD Image Award
• Arkansas Black Wall of Fame

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One of her poems was Recovery

• A Last love,
• Proper in conclusion,
• Should sip the wings
• forbidding further flight
• But I, now,
• reft of that conclusion,
• am lifted up
• and speeding toward the light.

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Maya Angelou Books

• Mayas World
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• On the Pulse of the
• Morning
• Harlem Hopscotch
• She helped write the show script, Cabaret for
  Freedom

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Important Dates from Mayas Life

• 1928-Born on April 4 in St.Louis,Missouri
• 1940-Graduates with top honors from Lafayette
  County Training School
• 1945-Receives a high school diploma her brother
  was born
• 1975-She is named Ladies Home Journal
• 1993-Chosen by President Clinton to write and
  recites a poem for the presidential inauguration.
• Dates from the book of Maya Angelou,
  Greeting in the Morning

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Fun Facts!!!

• Maya won 2 Grammy's
• She attended public schools just like us.
• Maya and her brother sold lemonade to hot workers
  at a store called Mommas.
• Maya and the others had a little black church
  and they would visit for religious and sometimes
  they would celebrate the black community.

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THE END!!