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Mom & me & mom
Mom & me & mom












mom & me & mom

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.

mom & me & mom

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. The final book in a series of autobiographies, ‘’Mom & Me & Mom’’ examines Maya Angelou’s relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter.














Mom & me & mom