She was rejected from the Army in the 1940's after a check revealed that her alma mater, the California Labor School, was considered subversive. A decade later, she worked as a madam for two prostitutes in San Francisco, where she had been the first black female street-car conductor. FTP, identify this woman, who was born Marguerite Annie Johnson, and who tells the story of her childhood rape at the hands of her mother's 
She was rejected from the Army in the 1940's after a check revealed that her alma mater, the California Labor School, was considered subversive. A decade later, she worked as a madam for two prostitutes in San Francisco, where she had been the first black female street-car conductor. FTP, identify this woman, who was born Marguerite Annie Johnson, and who tells the story of her childhood rape at the hands of her mother's boyfriend in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
She was rejected from the Army in the 1940's after a check revealed that her alma mater, the California Labor School, was considered subversive.
Maya {Angelou}