Together In My Name Maya Angelou Research Paper

Maya Angelou

She was born on April 4th 1928, She was formerly known in her childhood as Marguerite Annie

Johnson, she had an older brother named Bailey. When she was three and her brother was four, their parents split up. She and her brother were living with her grandmother after that, because their dad took them up there to live out of anger from the divorce. Then one day the dad showed up again and took

Maya and her brother back to live with their mother. While there, the mother left Maya alone with her boyfriend. When she did, he proceeded to rape Maya. She told her brother and he told the rest of the family, and the boyfriend went to jail for only one day. When he got out he was killed most believed her uncles had killed him. When Maya

Never I. ‘I have no skeletons in my closet, in fact, I have no closet. ‘They lie like that and young people find themselves in situations and they think damn, I must have been a pretty bad guy. ‘My mom and dad never did anything wrong! ‘They can’t forgive themselves and go on with their lives.” So she wrote this book called “Gather Together in My Name” about her past as a sex trader.

After she ended her marriage, she worked at clubs as a professional dancer. She even danced at the Purple Onion. While there, she decided to change her name to Maya Angelou and her stage name to

Miss Calypso. She left after some time to join the Harlem Writers Guild. Maya and Killen helped form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC), and she became the northern coordinator. In 1961, she met a freedom fighter from South America named Vusumzi Make. They never got married but moved to Cairo together. They eventually split up and Maya moved to Accra Ghana.

In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. asked her to form a march. She agreed to but never did it. In

1972, she made a movie called Georgia, she also made the movie’s soundtrack to it. After that she