![]() In 1961, she moved to Egypt with a boyfriend and edited for the Arab Observer. In 1959, she moved to New York, became friends with prominent Harlem writers, and got involved with the civil rights movement. From 1954 to ’55, she toured 22 countries. She auditioned for an international tour of Porgy and Bess and won a role. Ironically, the strip club saved her career: She was discovered there by a theater group. She moved to San Diego, worked as a nightclub waitress, tangled with drugs and prostitution and danced in a strip club. However, her plans were put on hold when she had a son at age 16. After moving to San Francisco with her mother and brother in 1940, Angelou began taking dance lessons, eventually auditioning for professional theater. Frightened by the power of her own tongue, Angelou chose not to speak for the next five years.įrom this quiet beginning emerged a young woman who sang, danced, and recorded poetry. When she revealed what happened, her uncles kicked the culprit to death. When she was eight, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. ![]() Her parents divorced when she was three, and she and her brother went to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Poet and novelist Maya Angelou-born Marguerite Johnson-is born in St. ![]()
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