... 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 ... ...
... 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 ... ...
... 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 ... ...
... 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 ... ...
