Essay Archive - Writings of Maya Angelou
Writings of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in California (Lupton 1).
When she was three years old her parents divorced. Her father then put her
and her brother on a segregated train from St. Louis, California, to Stamps,
Arkansas, to live with their grandmother (2). That began the roller
coaster of her life. She went back and forth from her mother to her
grandmother on a couple of occasions. When she was seven, she returned to
live with her mother. She thought of it there as a foreign town because
it was not like what she was ....
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