Margaret Taylor-Burroughs
| Margaret Burroughs | |
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| Born |
November 1, 1915 St. Rose, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 21, 2010 (aged 95) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality |
 American
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| Education |
Englewood High School (now Englewood Technical Prep Academy), Chicago Chicago Teacher's College (now Chicago State University) School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Organization |
South Side Community Art Center DuSable Museum of African American History |
| Spouse(s) | Bernard Goss Charles Gordon Burroughs |
| Children |
Gayle Goss Toller |
| Parent(s) | Alexander Taylor Octavia Pierre Taylor |
| Awards | President's Humanitarian Award (President Gerald Ford), 1975 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, 1988 Paul Robeson Award, 1989 Art Institute of Chicago's Legends and Legacy Award, 2010 |
Gayle Goss Toller
Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (November 1, 1915 – November 21, 2010), also known as Margaret Taylor Goss, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs or Margaret T G Burroughs; was an American visual artist, writer, poet, educator, and arts organizer. She co-founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African American History. An active member of the African-American community, she also helped to establish the South Side Community Art Center, whose opening on May 1, 1941 was dedicated by the First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt. There at the age of 23 Burroughs served as the youngest member of its board of directors. She was a prolific writer, with her efforts directed toward the exploration of the Black experience and to children, especially to their appreciation of their cultural identity and to their introduction and growing awareness of art. She is also credited with the founding of Chicago's Lake Meadows Art Fair in the early 1950s.
Burroughs was born Victoria Margaret Taylor in St. Rose, Louisiana, where her father worked as a farmer and laborer at a railroad warehouse and her mother as a domestic. The family moved to Chicago in 1920 when she was five years old. There she attended Englewood High School along with Gwendolyn Brooks, who in 1985-1986 served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now United States Poet Laureate). As classmates, the two joined the NAACP Youth Council. She earned teacher's certificates from Chicago Teachers College in 1937. She helped found the South Side Community Arts Center in 1939 to serve as a social center, gallery, and studio to showcase African American artists. In 1946, Taylor-Burroughs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she also earned her Master of Arts degree in art education, in 1948. Taylor-Burroughs married the artist Bernard Goss (1913–1966), in 1939, and they divorced in 1947. In 1949, she married Charles Gordon Burroughs and they remained married for 45 years until his death in 1994.
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