Maya Angelou
1928–2014 · Person
Poet and memoirist whose 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' reshaped American letters.
On these timelines: Women in history, USA, Arts and Thoughts, People, Master
More from Women in history
- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi's second premiership (1980)
- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Indira Gandhi's first premiership (1966)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
Around 1928
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)