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    Dr. Maya Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had an illustrious career as a dancer, singer, actress, poet, writer and civil rights activist. Throughout her life, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and became the first black woman to have her portrait displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

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    Dr. Maya Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had an illustrious career as a dancer, singer, actress, poet, writer and civil rights activist. Throughout her life, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and became the first black woman to have her portrait displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

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    Dr. Maya Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had an illustrious career as a dancer, singer, actress, poet, writer and civil rights activist. Throughout her life, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and became the first black woman to have her portrait displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

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    Dr. Maya Angelou passed away on May 28, 2014 at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had an illustrious career as a dancer, singer, actress, poet, writer and civil rights activist. Throughout her life, she published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry, and became the first black woman to have her portrait displayed in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

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    Maya Angelou’s Obituary

    Dr. Maya Angelou was born to Vivian Baxter and Bailey Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri
    on April 4, 1928. She passed to her Heavenly Reward quietly on May 28, 2014 in her
    home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is survived by her son, daughter-in-law,
    two grandsons and two great-grandchildren, a nephew, a niece, grandnieces, great-
    grandnieces, grandnephews, great-grandnephews and a host of beloveds.

    From the time she was a child, Dr. Angelou proved that she was a unique individual with
    amazing commitment and focus. The birth of her son when she was seventeen did not
    prevent her from continuing in pursuit of her dreams for a creative career. From her
    start as a singer in San Francisco’s Purple Onion and Hungry I in 1953 to the installation
    of her portrait in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. in
    2014, she was continuously on a dramatic, musical or political stage.

    She was a dancer, a singer, an actress, a poet, a writer, a magazine editor, a playwright, a
    film director as well as a college lecturer, full Professor and a fearless, outspoken
    activist. She never let her various vocations inhibit her activism or her willingness to
    speak out against injustice and inequality. She performed in a number of major
    productions. She was in the movie Porgy and Bess. She was also in the 1977 television
    series of Alex Haley’s Roots and in the 1995 film How to make an American Quilt. She
    was in too many other productions to name. She directed the films Georgia,
    Georgia and Down in the Delta.

    Her first book, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published in 1970. She went on
    to write thirty-three other books including autobiographies, poetry and essays. A
    number of her works were best sellers and were published in a number of languages.

    Throughout her life Dr. Angelou’s activism never flagged or waned. In 1959, during the
    height of the Civil Rights Movement, she headed the New York office of Dr. Martin
    Luther King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Next, she worked for the Arab
    Observer News Magazine in Cairo, Egypt, which was the premiere English language
    magazine in the Middle East. Later she moved to Ghana and met Malcolm X. She
    returned to the United States to work for him, but he was assassinated four days after
    her arrival in New York. She continued to be a voice of humanity, speaking out against
    anything that fettered the human spirit. Her life and her body of literary work trumpet
    the importance of love, tolerance and forgiveness. She was a warrior for truth, justice
    and love.

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