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Maya Angelou's Legacy Includes Transit Pioneer
Author, civil rights activist, and cultural icon Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at 86, was San Francisco’s first African-American woman streetcar conductor when she was hired by the Market Street Railway Company at 16. Mom & Me & Mom, the most recent volume in her multi-book autobiography, chronicles in part her work her as a streetcar conductor.
To get the job, Angelou said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last year that she camped out in front of a manager’s office for two weeks to get his attention after she was denied a job application. He finally hired her after she declared that she “loved the uniforms” and enjoyed working with people. Among the things she gained from her public transit job, Angelou said she learned that “with determination and dedication, you can go anywhere in the world.”
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