She could not even call her mother, but rather addressed her as ‘’Lady’’ for years after instead. Unlike her brother, who was comfortable with their mother from the moment they reunited, Maya could not forgive her for leaving them at such a young age. ‘’I loved her and I liked her and I felt safe under the umbrella of her love.’’ On the flip side, her brother longed to see their mother again. ‘’I was very comfortable with Grandmother Henderson,’’ she recalls. However, Angelou says that she did not want to reunite with Vivian. As Angelou explains, ‘’Black boys his age who even noticed white girls risked being beaten, bruised, or lynched by the Ku Klux Klan.’’ For this reason, Maya and her brother moved to California to live with their mother again. When Bailey was 14, their grandmother realized it was no longer safe for them to stay with her. They separated quickly and, as neither of them wanted to take care of two toddlers, they sent Maya and Bailey to their father's mother in Arkansas. ‘’They were matches and gasoline,’’ writes Angelou. Unfortunately for the children, it turned out the parents did not get along well. To distance themselves from her family, who disapproved of the marriage, the newlyweds moved away from them to California where Maya and her 2-year-older brother Bailey were born. Her father proudly called her his ‘’little girl-boy.’’Īngelou’s mother, who she describes as a startling beauty, married her father in 1924.

Although a girl, Vivian was not excluded from these conflicts - Angelou says she used to beat the offenders fearlessly, too. Her father taught his children to resolve all the conflicts physically, and, for this reason, the Baxter family was known as the ‘’Bad Baxters.’’ When someone would insult them, Baxters would track the offender and beat them. Vivian Baxter grew up in a violent environment. Her mother, on the other hand, was of Irish descent and raised by German adoptive parents.

Her father called himself a proud American citizen who came to Florida from Trinidad by evading immigration agents. The first of the six Baxter children, Vivian Baxter was born in the first decade of the 20th century in St. So, get ready to hear Angelou's personal story and the role her mother had in it! Who was Vivian Baxter?

Angelou says she became the woman she did because of her mother. Angelou portrays her mother as a strong and loving woman who supported her through single motherhood, a failed marriage, and career struggles. On this page you can also find the rankings from previous years (2021, 2022).The final book in a series of autobiographies, ‘’Mom & Me & Mom’’ examines Maya Angelou’s relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter. The result lists from Calgary Marathon, Half Marathon, 50k, 10k & 5k on May 28, 2023. The LIVE-Results and official rankings from the Calgary Marathon 2023 in Canada.

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