... that Daddy Clidell is probably one of the best things to happen to Maya. He shows her unconditional love and affection. Especially at a time like this, with the move to San Francisco and all, this is what she needs. He is probably the closest thing to a father that Maya has ever had and I think she adores him. I think the move to ... San Francisco was a good idea because Maya finally feels at home. Maya has been through so much change in her life and this city is constantly changing because of the war, so ... to get through school and get good grades. One of the amazing things she man...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... applied for the job several times, and was constantly rejected and insulted, then finally, she succeeded. By acheiving her goal, Angelou became the first black female street car conductor in San Francisco (Showalter 5). Two years later, Maya was at a very critical point in her life. She felt insecure about her looks and unsure of her sexuality. Angelou had no friends to confide ... book opens new directions of thought and gives an insightful perspective of growing up as a southern Negro girl in three completely different towns: Stamps, Arkansas, and St. Louis, Missouri and San Francisco...

• Word Count: 2988
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... on Maya, I found many dates and time periods to be conflicting. It was sometime around 1945 that Maya became the first black female conductor for the San Francisco streetcars. Maya had many jobs while living in San Francisco. She was a Creole cook, a tap dancer, and did odd-jobs to support her and her son. In 1952 Maya met a Greek -American sailor named Tosh Angelos ... ...

• Word Count: 1253
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• Grade Level: High School

... father figure and embrace a real feeling of inclusion, in contrast to her previous life of abandonment. Also, she identifies with the city of San Francisco and, for the first time, she really experiences a feeling of belonging. Since arriving in San Francisco, she has had numerous sour experiences, including one awful one with her real father and his girlfriend. But Maya has grown up, and ... ...

• Word Count: 914
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• Grade Level: High School

... to stay silent for the next four years of her life. (Biography.com, 2015) Maya moved to California at age of thirteen and became the first African American conductor in San Francisco. Maya soon gave birth to her son after graduation when she was only sixteen. She decided not to get married to the baby's father because there was no love involved ... ...

• Word Count: 962
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in her way, and her poetry greatly portrayed that side of her. Angelou's resilience was first portrayed in her younger days when she became the first black streetcar conductor in San Francisco while she was still a teenager. Her poetry gives voices to the voiceless and also to the people who feel like they have no other option but to be trod upon ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... was scared of things people were going to say. When she was a teenager, she really loved art. Since she loved art, she got a scholarship to study dance and drama in San Francisco's Labor School. When she was 14, she dropped out of the school of dance and drama to become the first African-American female car conductor. After graduating high school she ... ...

• Word Count: 1000
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... death. She feels horrible about this, and she becomes mute. She only talks to Bailey. She runs away and stays with these runaway kids. After that she goes back to San Francisco. She starts to feel like she's a lesbian. She doesn't know why for sure but she is. She asks the neighbor boy to have sex with her, so that she stops ... ...

• Word Count: 859
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• Grade Level: High School

... the Middle East (Schafer 1). Maya grew up during The Great Depression and she suffered the brunt of segregation. "She was the first black and first woman street car conductor in San Francisco (during WWII)." Maya took a big part in the civil rights movement because of what she suffered while growing up. "In 1960-1961, she was asked by Martin Luther King Jr ... ...

• Word Count: 1242
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... more fortunate than most black families. Her father, Bailey Johnson, was a navy cook, and her mother Vixian Baxter, was a nightclub performer as well as a owner of a large rooming house in San Francisco (Andrews 19). In the early 1930's, sadly her parents were divorced and "...her father sent her and her brother, Bailey, by train, with name tags on their wrists, to live ... ...

• Word Count: 1174
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... love and care of Momma. After proudly graduating from junior high school and entering their teenage years, Maya and Bailey again go to live with their mother. She moves to San Francisco, where Maya feels more alone and insecure than ever. She has to come to terms with the feelings and issues of being a teenager, getting a job, finishing school, watching her brother ... ...

• Word Count: 1549
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... , and both she and Bailey use this to their advantage and also to taunt their classmates. Much later, at fifteen, she sets her mind to working on the streetcars in San Francisco. The first problem with this plan is that they do not allow Negroes to work on the streetcars. The second problem being that she is too young to work. But ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... power of poetry," Maya stated. Maya then becomes aware of the strength she had and returned to church. A few years pass and Maya moves back in with her mother in San Francisco. I know if I were in Maya's shoes, all this moving back and forth and not having a stable home would have been stressful enough. When Maya is 16 she gets pregnant. When ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... St. Louis, Arkansas, she comes from a broken home, was raped at eight, and was an unwed mother at 16 years old. Throughout all these circumstances she still managed to become San Francisco's first black woman conductor. She was also the first black woman to have an original screenplay produced in 1971, Georgia, Georgia. She has several volumes of poetry and B.B. King recorded ... ...

• Word Count: 1266
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• Grade Level: High School

... in her life. Maya decides to go with her father but bad incidents happen with her and Daddy Bailey's girlfriend Maya then decides to move back with her mother in San Francisco. Bailey moved away, taking a job with the railroad, so Maya fights for job as a streetcar conductor and becomes the first black female ever to be hired as a streetcar conductor. Maya ... ...

• Word Count: 1681
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• Grade Level: High School

... that is she loved poetry like she said she did then she would share it with the world, and so she did. She moved back into her mother's home in San Francisco after graduating with honors from Lafayette County Training School in 1940. At the ripe young age of 16, Angelou, unwed at the time, gave birth to her son Clyde (later ... ...

• Word Count: 777
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School