ern black aristocrat who helped Maya by pampering her when she needed it.
             Maya graduated eighth grade from Lafayette County Training School in 1940, with
             honors, and moved to Los Angeles. Eventually, Vivian married Daddy Clidell Jackson and
             the family eventually settled in a fourteen room house in San Francisco's Fillmore District.
             Maya took a short vacation at her real dad's trailer. After a thirty-day disappearance, she
             became San Francisco's first black streetcar conductor. Shortly after summer school
             graduation from Mission High, she bore a son, Clyde Bailey "Guy" Johnson, who was
             To Support her child Maya moved about CA with a variety of jobs- dancing at night
             clubs, cooking at a Creole Cafe, and serving as a madam and prostitute at a San Diego
             brothel. She applied for the Army where she was accepted then later sent away. She eased
             her rejection with marijuana. When returning her attention to family matters, because of
             Bailey's deep dispair of the death of his wife, Eunice, he forced her to give up this risky life,
             and seek an official job. Already being married one time, to white man Tosh Angelos,
             Anglou left Guy in Vivian's care and toured Europe and Africa with a U.S. Department of
             State production of Porgy and Bess.
             Angelou went on to New York and linked herself with the Harlem Writers Guild in the
             late 50's. Years of private music and drama training and dance classes with Martha Graham,
             Pearl Primus, and Ann Halprin prepared her good for a career. She danced and
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