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	VG: Artist Biography: Taylor, Mildred
		Mildred Delois Taylor was born in 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Wilbert Lee and Deletha M. Taylor.
		The Taylors' migration to the North was because her father did not want to raise his daughters in the segregated, racist land of the South.
		Taylor graduated from the University of Toledo in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in education.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/taylor_mildred.html (662 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| June 14, 2003 - Grade Saver: Biography of Ethiopia RPCV Mildred Taylor (1943-)
		Mildred Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943, to Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor.
		Taylor calls these stories "a different history from the one I learned in school" and credits her father's storytelling with her decision, by the time she entered high school, that she would become a writer.
		Taylor moved to Los Angeles after returning to the United States and worked at a number of temporary jobs as she began to focus on her writing and even refused a job at CBS as she continued to write.
	peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2014191.html (1427 words)

	Books: Presenting Mildred D. Taylor
		Mildred Delois Taylor has been one of the leading writers for young adults ever since her masterwork, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, won the Newbery Medal, the American Library Association’s highest honor for young adult literature, in 1977.
		Taylor inherited the gift, indeed the responsibility, of storytelling from her own family, especially her father, whom she refers to as a “master storyteller,” and many of her novels incorporate real-life family events and characters.
		Here are the never-before-told stories of Taylor’s background, childhood, family history, and political experience as a member of the Black Studies program at the University of Colorado (which she helped to found) in the late 1960’s.
	www.chriscrowe.com /books/mildred.html (480 words)

	Plaza of Heroines - Mildred Dodds Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Mildred entered Iowa State in the autumn of 1915, she lived on her parents' farm, 1 1/2 miles north of the campus, and walked over a field, through the timber, across an old footbridge over Squaw Creek to reach her classes each day.
		Mildred returned to Ames in 1929, married Reuben L. ("Joe") Taylor there, and "became a farm wife." They moved to her parents' farm to continue her family's tradition, raising crops and livestock, working hard to maintain and improve the land on which she grew up.
		Mildred's family savors memories of her kind and generous ways, her endlessly loving nature, and her delicious rolls and cookies.
	www.las.iastate.edu /kiosk/1136.shtml (790 words)

	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Book Notes Summary by Mildred D. Taylor: Author/Context
		Her father, Wilbert Taylor, had grown up in the South, and though he loved the land and his neighbors, he was angry about the way fl people like himself were treated by white people in the South.
		Mildred and her older sister Wilma loved their first house in Toledo, even though they were poor, because there was always family around.
		Though Taylor has been writing since she was a young girl, she did not realize that she wanted to be a writer until 1973, when she entered a contest for minority writers.
	www.bookrags.com /notes/roth/BIO.htm (743 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
		Mildred Taylor wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in the 1970s, at the height of the Black Power movement and at the beginning of an increasing presence of African-American history in education.
		Mildred Taylor's own ancestors were slaves in the state of Mississippi, as were the ancestors of the novel's protagonist, ten-year-old Cassie Logan.
		Therefore, when Taylor published Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry in 1976, she was doing so in a safe literary environment which had embraced her previous depiction of the Logans' encounters with racism in 1930s Mississippi.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/thunder/about.html (993 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Mildred Taylor (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Taylor calls these stories "a different history from the one I learned in school" and credits her father's storytelling with her decision to become a writer.
		Taylor's father attempted to instill in Mildred and her sister, Wilma, an awareness of their past and future.
		Taylor attended college at the University of Toledo and spent much of her free time writing, a process she found difficult, but at which she was determined to succeed.
	www.gradesaver.com.cob-web.org:8888 /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_mildred_taylor.html (1039 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Mildred Taylor
		However, for Taylor, the South of racism and segregation was also a "South of family and community." Familial strength is an important theme in Taylor's books, and stories about her family (aunts, uncles, and great-grandparents), as told by her father, were a staple of Taylor's childhood.
		Taylor had originally planned to tell the story from the point of view of her grandmother, but found it to be more successful when told from the perspective of eight-year-old Cassie Logan.
		The former narrates the course of a relationship between a white man and a fl man in 1930s Mississippi that eventually becomes violent, and the latter is based on the trips Taylor took to the South as a child with her family.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_mildred_taylor.html (1030 words)

	Jackson metro & state news - The Clarion-Ledger
		Taylor is author of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, which won the Newbery, the most prestigious award in children's literature.
		The great-granddaughter of a white plantation owner's son and a slave, Taylor grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where her family moved shortly after she was born.
		Taylor herself has said that she has "attempted to present a true picture of life in America as older members of my family remember it, and as I remember it in the days before the civil rights movement."
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0403/21/m09.html (479 words)

	Mildred Taylor of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mildred Taylor is the crème de la crème. Her first full-length novel, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976), won the 1977 Newbery Award from the American Library Association, the most prestigious honor in American children's literature.
		Taylor's cast of characters is vast, inclusive of fl people, white and Native American people, mixed-race people, people who can "pass," and people of both races of varying economic status and of different educational status.
		The series form serves Taylor well because it gives her the opportunity, as a writer, to explore her characters as they pass through the various stages of their lives, ranging from childhood through adolescence through adulthood, without being rushed to accomplish this in one big novel.
	www.ou.edu /worldlit/NSK/Taylor.htm (1152 words)

	Mildred D. Taylor Biography \| Authors and Artist for Young Adults
		The author of ten novels for young readers, Mildred D. Taylor shares pride in her racial heritage and provides historical fiction about life for fl Americans in her award-winning series of novels about the fictional Logan family.
		In her acceptance speech for the 1997 Alan Award for significant contributions to young adult literature, Taylor noted: "I have to be honest with myself in the telling of all my stories.
		As a child, Taylor was regaled with stories of proud, dignified ancestors, but she received a different version of history from white, mainstream America.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/mildred-d-taylor-aya (209 words)

	Educational Paperback Association
		Mildred D. Taylor was born in 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio.
		In her Newbery acceptance speech, Taylor recalled her childhood and annual trips back to Mississippi "when we children had finished all the games we could think to play, we would join the adults, soon becoming enraptured by their talk, for it would often turn to.
		Taylor moved to Los Angeles in 1971, where she took an editing job and devoted her evenings to writing.
	www.edupaperback.org /showauth.cfm?authid=75 (1044 words)

	Mildred D. Taylor
		Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943.
		She is the daughter of Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor.
		Taylor, the South still holds pleasant memories as the home of her ancestors.
	www.100megsfree4.com /heejr/taylor.htm (79 words)

	MWP: Mildred D. Taylor (1943- )
		Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943, to Wilbert Lee Taylor and Deletha Marie Davis Taylor.
		In the 1950s, Taylor attended newly integrated schools in Toledo; she graduated from Scott High School in 1961 and from the University of Toledo in 1965.
		Similarly, in her other novels, nearly all the events are based on stories Taylor has heard from her father and other family members; nearly all the characters are based on family members or acquaintances she has known or learned about.
	www.olemiss.edu /mwp/dir/taylor_mildred (1352 words)

	Mildred Taylor
		Taylor's novel, which won the prestigious Newbery Medal in 1977, is rural Mississippi during the 1930s.
		The Logans are fighting to save their land, their dignity as human beings, and, ultimately, their lives -- from the powerful forces of racial and economic oppression.
		Taylor wanted to do more than express the problem, as she writes in a new introduction to the anniversary edition of her novel.
	www.recess.ufl.edu /transcripts/2006/0224.shtml (238 words)

	Taylor_Mildred_ms
		Mildred Delois Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943, to Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie Davis Taylor.
		After returning to the States, Taylor recruited for the Peace Corps and then enrolled in graduate school in journalism at the University of Colorado.
		Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi to Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/taylor_mildred_ms.htm (1076 words)

	Peace Corps Online \| Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor. Mildred worked in Ethiopia for two years with the ...
		Mildred Taylor vividly portrays the racial and economic climate during this period in American history.
		Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi at a time when African American people in America were still struggling for full freedom.
		The Taylor family often sat spellbound in front of the fireplace or the front porch under the moonlight listening to the stories of African American people who lived their lives with pride and dignity.These were stories of real people who had lived in Ohio and Mississippi.
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	Mildred Taylor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mildred Delois Taylor (born in Jackson, Mississippi on September 13, 1943) is an author famous for her children’s fiction stories.
		Taylor still had a love for his old home, so there were several trips to the relatives that had stayed in the South.
		The family storytellers recollected accounts of struggles with severe racism in the South, tragedies and triumphs; humorous yarns were told and many of the stories were about surviving and the African-American family keeping their dignity in a racist culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mildred_Taylor (375 words)

	Mildred D. Taylor, Mississippi writer and author
		Mildred Taylor was quoted in Something About the Author, as saying, "As a small child, I loved the South.
		Mildred Taylor has won many awards for her books.
		Taylor has drawn from what her father had told her about his boyhood.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Taylor.html (749 words)

	Mildred D. Taylor - Penguin Books Authors - Penguin Books
		Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and grew up in Toledo, Ohio.
		Taylor has pursued many other goals and interests in addition to writing.
		After graduating from the University of Toledo, she spent two years in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps teaching English and history, "the happiest years" in her adult life.
	www.penguin.ca /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000031974,00.html (999 words)

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		From the outset, it is clear that Taylor means to challenge the representation of fl individuals and families as subservient and vulnerable and to replace them with ones of real people with dreams, ambitions and expectations and the determination to make these a reality.
		While the racial tension is a tangible feature of the novel, Taylor does not give us a simple litany of injustices faced by these young fl people and their families.
		They are a testimony to the people whose stories inspired her as a child and a timeless reminder of the essentially dehumanising nature of racism.
	www.skoool.ie /skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=421 (1364 words)

	Taylor Mildred D - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Taylor Mildred D - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, a place she later called “a segregated city in a...
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	Amazon.ca: Well Library Edition: Books: Mildred Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As in The Friendship (Dial, 1987), Taylor has used her gift for storytelling and skillful characterization to craft a brief but compelling novel about prejudice and the saving power of human dignity.?Marie Orlando, Suffolk Cooperative Library System, Bellport, NY Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
		The part were they got a whipping, and it sounded like it was a real whipping was sad and horrible at the same time.
		Mildred did good on the well it was great, but I think it should have 4 stars.
	www.amazon.ca /Well-Library-Mildred-Taylor/dp/0803718039 (1039 words)

	The Land and Other Books by Mildred D. Taylor
		This novella is based on Taylor's recollection of a family trip from Ohio to Mississippi in the early 1950s.
		In her Newbery Award acceptance speech, Taylor said that one of her goals as a writer was to "paint a truer picture of Black people.
		Taylor is often praised for her positive portrayal of strong female characters.
	www.teachervision.fen.com /reading/printable/31177.html?detoured=1 (4664 words)

	Wendolonia: Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Taylor is one of the best writers I've ever encountered.
		In the novel she deals with racism, poverty, share-cropping, politics, violence against the fl community, voting issues, teenage sexuality, problems between siblings, illiteracy, and mental handicaps.
		Taylor develops each one fully and makes the reader think about them.
	www.wendolonia.com /books/circle.htm (617 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This love can be seen in the work she does as a part of her professional career, as well as in the work she does with and for her co-workers, friends, family, and those in need.
		Professionally, Mildred has served the corporate world as a computer programmer, engineer, quality analyst, test engineer, software release engineer, project leader, product manager, program manager, and sales consultant.
		Mildred is a woman with power, vision, compassion, and conviction.
	www.mildredtaylor.com (182 words)

	Mildred D. Taylor
		Mildred D. Taylorís Acceptance Speech for the 1997 Alan Award
		Each study illustrates the interconnectedness of aesthetic, critical, and biographical response on the part of young readers and writers, and showcases the breadth and depth of their response.
		A study investigated fifth-grade female students' responses to The Friendship, by Mildred Taylor.
	www.indiana.edu /~reading/ieo/bibs/taylor.html (3704 words)

	Mildred D. Taylor Message Board
		I really love mildred taylor's books and ive only read 2 - let the circle be unbroken and roll of thunder hear my cry i really love the character of cassie i think everyone can relate to the books i can't wait to read the road to memphis.
		Can anyone tell us the order of all the books in the series which starts with The Land and finishes (when writing is completed) with Logan.
		Taylor, I am very pleased with your writings about the Logan family.
	www.allreaders.com /Board.asp?BoardID=26620 (551 words)

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