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ngelou died on the morning of May 28, 2014.[112] She was found by her nurse. Although Angelou had reportedly been in poor health and had canceled recent scheduled appearances, she was working on another book, an autobiography about her experiences with national and world leaders.[66][80] During her memorial service at Wake Forest University, her son Guy Johnson stated that despite being in constant pain due to her dancing career and respiratory failure, she wrote four books during the last ten years of her life. He said, "She left this mortal plane with no loss of acuity and no loss in comprehension".[113]

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n late 2010, Angelou donated her personal papers and career memorabilia to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem.[86] They consisted of over 340 boxes of documents that featured her handwritten notes on yellow legal pads for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a 1982 telegram from Coretta Scott King, fan mail, and personal and professional correspondence from colleagues such as her editor Robert Loomis.[87] In 2011, Angelou served as a consultant for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C. She spoke out in opposition to a paraphrase of a quotation by King that appeared on the memorial, saying, "The quote makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit",[88] and demanded that it be changed. Eventually, the paraphrase was removed.[89]

In 2013, at the age of 85, Angelou published the seventh autobiography in her series, titled Mom & Me & Mom, that focuses on her relationship with her mother.[90]

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In Accra, she became close friends with Malcolm X during his visit in the early 1960s.[note 7] Angelou returned to the U.S. in 1965 to help him build a new civil rights organization, the Organization of Afro-American Unity; he was assassinated shortly afterward. Devastated and adrift, she joined her brother in Hawaii, where she resumed her singing career, and then moved back to Los Angeles to focus on her writing career. She worked as a market researcher in Watts and witnessed the riots in the summer of 1965. She acted in and wrote plays, and returned to New York in 1967. She met her lifelong friend Rosa Guy and renewed her friendship with James Baldwin, whom she had met in Paris in the 1950s and called "my brother", during this time.[48] Her friend Jerry Purcell provided Angelou with a stipend to support her writing.[

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n 1961, Angelou performed in Jean Genet's play The Blacks, along with Abbey Lincoln, Roscoe Lee Brown, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett, Godfrey Cambridge, and Cicely Tyson.[39] Also in 1961, she met South African freedom fighter Vusumzi Make; they never officially married.[40] She and her son Guy moved with Make to Cairo, where Angelou worked as an associate editor at the weekly English-language newspaper The Arab Observer.[41][42] In 1962, her relationship with Make ended, and she and Guy moved to Accra, Ghana so he could attend college, but he was seriously injured in an automobile accident.[note 6] Angelou remained in Accra for his recovery and ended up staying there until 1965. She became an administrator at the University of Ghana, and was active in the African-American expatriate community.[44] She was a feature editor for The African Review,[45] a freelance writer for the Ghanaian Times, wrote and broadcast for Radio Ghana, and worked and performed for Ghana's National Theatre. She performed in a revival of The Blacks in Geneva and Berlin.[46]

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After Angelou's marriage ended in 1954, she danced professionally in clubs around San Francisco, including the nightclub the Purple Onion, where she sang and danced to calypso music.[29] Up to that point she went by the name of "Marguerite Johnson", or "Rita", but at the strong suggestion of her managers and supporters at the Purple Onion she changed her professional name to "Maya Angelou" (her nickname and former married surname), a "distinctive name"[30] that set her apart and captured the feel of her calypso dance performances.

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Marguerite John Better Known As Maya Angelou Was Born April 4, 1928 In Saint. Louis, Missouri She Was One Of 2 Children Born To Bailey Johnson & Vivian Baxter- Johnson. When Maya Was 3 Years Old Her Father And Mother Divorced And Her Father Sent Her And Her Brother To Stamps Arkansas To Live With Their Grandmother Annie Henderson

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Later On Maya Angelou's Without Warning Father Came To Get Her And Her Brother And Took Them Home A Few Years later Maya Was Raped And Sexually Abused By Her Mother's Boyfriend. Maya Told Her Brother And He Told The Rest Of The Family The Man Went To Jail For Only One Day But Later Got Murdered. After He Was Murdered Maya Went Mute For 5 Years Because She Felt Like Her Voice Killed Him. But During The 5 Years Maya Went Mute. She Developed He Amazing Memory And Love For Literature And Books

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At Age 14 Maya Once Again Moved Back With Her Mother Whom Had Moved To Oakland,Ca During World War II

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During World War ll Maya Angelou Attended California Labor School Before She Graduated She Got A Job As The First Black Female Street Car Conductor In San Francisco Three Weeks After Graduating CLS Maya Gave Birth To A Baby Named Clyde Who Later Changed His Name To Guy Johnson.

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In 1951 Maya Married Greek Electrician And Aspiring Musician Tosh Angelos. Despite Her Mothers Disapproval. She Took Modern Dance Classes In This Time. Formed A Dance Team With Alvin Ailey And Called Themselves Al & Rita And Performed Dance At Fraternal Black Organizations Across San Francisco But Never Became Successful