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 (1917)
- The Feminine Mystique published (1963)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
- Rosa Parks (1913)
Around 1928
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)