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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Timeline Maya Angelou biography
Chap.1: Maya and Bailey go to live in Stamps, Arkansas with Momma and Uncle Willie.

Chap.2: Uncle Willie pretends not to be crippled, so he can make a good impression on some schoolteachers from Little Rock.

Chap.3: Uncle Willie has to hid in the onion crate from the "boys".

Chap.4: One of Momma's friends comments on how ugly Maya is, so Bailey say that her son looked sick and when she asks with what, he says the Uglies.

Chap.5: The powhitetrash come to the store and start harrassing Momma and then one of them does a cartwheel and she doesn't have any other undergarments on, but Momma just ignores them and keeps her calm.

Chap.6: Sister Monroe starts acting like a crazy person in church, saying "Preach It! I said Preach It!".

Chap.7: Momma and Uncle Willie hid a man in their chifforobe from the Ku Klux Klan.

Chap.8: Bailey and Maya's parents send them Christmas presents.

Chap.9: Daddy Bailey comes to Stamps to take Maya and Bailey to St. Louis, Missourri to live with their mother.

Chap.10: Maya and Bailey meet their mother and the other side of their family.

Chap.11: Mr. Freeman sexually molestes Maya.

Chap.12: Mr. Freeman Rapes Maya.

Chap.13: Maya gets taken to the hospital and then later on she has to testify against Mr. Freeman in court.

Chap.14: Maya and Bailey get sent back to Stamps.

Chap.15: Maya meets Mrs. Flowers.

Chap.16: Maya goes to work for Mrs. Cullinan, who isults Maya by calling her Mary, so Maya breaks Mrs. Cullinan's mother's Viginia China.

Chap.17: Bailey gets in trouble for staying out late to see a movie.

Chap.18: All of the African-American's in Stamps go to a revival meeting held in a tent.

Chap.19: All of the African-Americans in Stamps go to Momma's store to listen to the boxing matchon the radio between a white man and a black man.

Chap.20: Maya recieves her first Valentine.

Chao.21:Bailey plays "house" with some girls from school.

Chap.22: Mr. taylor comes to Momma's store one night, claiming he had seen his dead wife's ghost.

Chap.23: Maya graduates from eighth grade.

Chap.24: Maya gets a toothache, so Momma takes who to the white dentist in Stamps, who refuses to see her, so they have to go to Texicana.

Chap.25: Bailey sees an African-American man's dead body being pulled out of a lake.

Chap.26: Momma takes Bailey and Maya to California to live with Mother Dear.

Chap.27: WW2 hits San Fransisco, California.

Chap.28: Maya goes to George Washington High School.

Chap.29: Roomers rent rooms in Maya's house.

Chap.30: Maya goes to Daddy Baileys for the summer and he takes her to Mexico.

Chap.31: Maya gets into a fight with Dolores(her dad's girlfriend).

Chap.32: Maya runs away from her dad's friends house and lives in a junkyard with some other kids.

Chap.33: When Maya goes back home, Mother Dear and Bailey get into a fight and Bailey moves out.

Chap.34: Maya gets a job as a streetcar conductor after three weeks of trying.

Chap.35: Maya thinks that she is a lesbian, so she goes out and has sexual intercourse with a boy to prove that she isn't.

Chap.36: Maya gets pregnant and has a baby boy.