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More than a a decade ago Margaret Burroughs' name was added to the growing list of Black printmakers. Si Cedric Dover has included her in his 1964 publication, American Negro Art, which carries reproduction of two of her woodcuts Mexican Landscape and her prize winning Sojourner Truth, and I am happy to say that in 1968, she gave Alabama A & M a Sojourner print for its collection.  

In 1939, Dr. Burroughs was one of the founders of the Chicago South Side Community Art Center. Since, 1957, she had directed the Lake Meadow Art Fair which usually includes exhibits of more than 1,000 paintings, works of sculpture, and crafts, and from 1959 to 1961. She was Director of the Negro History Hall of Fame, Chicago Coliseum. In 1966, she was invited by professor Antoni Michalak, well-known artist and teacher of Poland, to exhibit her drawings at the University of Lublin in Poland.                

Years ago, Dr. Burroughs envisioned an organization devoted to the growth and stimulation of art among Black people. Her efforts, along with those of some fellow artist, resulted in the founding in 1959, of the National Conference of Artists.               

Dr. Burroughs' career as a writer of children's books began many years ago with the publication in 1947, of Jasper the Drummer Boy. In 1955, her anthology, Did You Feed My Cow? was published. Since then she has found time to continue her writing of articles for magazines and journals.
                  
Not content with the many projects for which she was directly responsible, Dr. Burroughs and her husband Charles established in 1961, the DuSable Museum of History and Art in the belief that such an institution would help give Black children a sense of dignity and something with which to identify themselves.