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Margaret Taylor Burroughs

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Black Biography:
Margaret Taylor Burroughs
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artist; educator; writer; museum director; founder

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Born Margaret Taylor, November 1, 1917, in St. Rose, LA; daughter of Alexander and Octavia (Pierre) Taylor; married Bernad Goss, 1939 (divorced, 1947); married Charles Gordon Burroughs (a museum curator), December 23, 1949; children: (first marriage) Gayle Goss Toller; (second marriage; adopted) Paul.
Education: Chicago Normal College, teaching certificate, 1937; Chicago Teachers College (now Chicago State University), upper-grade art certificate, 1939; Art Insitute of Chicago, B.F.A., 1946, M.F.A., 1948. Attended Teachers College of Columbia University, graduate study, summers, 1958-60; Esmerelda Art School, Mexico City, 1952-53.
Memberships: Chicago South Side Community Art Center, National Conference of Negro Artists, Chicago Council on Fine Arts, National Commission on Negro History and Culture.

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