MARGUERITE ANNIE JOHNSON

EARLY YEARS

• April 4, 1828, St. Lousis, Missouri
• Annie Henderson
• Bailey Johnson
• Stamps, Arkansas
• May 28, 2014

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• Moral guilt, Freeman
• San Francisco, "Lady"
• Art and Dance Scholarship
• African-American female cable car conductor

MAYA ANGELOU

• married Anastatsios Angelopulous in 1952
• 1950s beginning of her multitalented career
• 1957, Miss Calypso
• New York and Harlem Writers Guild
• Civil Rights Movement

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• 1960s, The Blacks, abroad
• 1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• 1972, Georgia Geogia
• Tony Award, Emmy Award, nomination for Pulitzer Prize
• Grammy Award

ASSOCIATION

• Malcom X
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Oprah Winfrey
• Presidents
• Nelson Mandela

CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

• Segragation and apartheid
• Economic Justice issues
• "Poor People's Campaign"
• Marriage equality

"So say the Asian, the Hispanic, the Jew
The African and Native American, the Sioux,
The Catholic, the Muslim, the French, the Greek,
The Irish, the Rabbi, the Priest, the Sheikh,
The Gay, the Straight, the Preacher,
The privileged, the homeless, the Teacher.
They hear. They all hear..."

WORKS

• Mom & Me & Me, 2013
• Now Sheba Sings the Song, 1987
• I Shall Not Be Move, 1990
• A Brave and Startling Truth, 1995
• Amazing Peace, 2005

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