Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson on April 4,1928 in St.Louis Missouri to Bailey Johnson a doorman and navy dietician and Vivan Johnson a nurse and card dealer.She and her brother Bailey Jr. we're sent to live with their grandmother in Stamps,Arkansas in 1931 because their parents had a bad marriage.She graduated from Mission High School in 1945.Angelou had her son Guy Johnson when she was 16.