Porgy and Bess, studied dance with Martha Graham and performed with Alvin Ailey on television. She toured Europe in the1950s with a production of Later she added the Angelou, a version of her first husband's name.Īngelou left a troubled childhood and the segregated world of Arkansas behind and began a career as a dancer and singer. It was her brother who first called her Maya, and the name stuck. Louis, Mo., and Stamps, Ark., she was Marguerite Johnson. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of a series of memoirs. Angelou, who refused to speak for much of her childhood, revealed the scars of her past in Louis in 1928, Angelou grew up in a segregated society that she worked to change during the civil rights era. Poet, performer and political activist Maya Angelou has died after a long illness at her home in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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