Maya Angelou, award-winning author of many books, is one of the most influential African Americans in American history, and lives a life far from typical. She's a poet, an author, a play-write, an actress, a mother, a civil-rights activist, historian ... 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 had a baby boy. She became a single mother at a very young age. In order to support her ... she then moved to Ghana where she went ...

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