Margaret Taylor Burroughs

Margaret TaylorBurroughs , 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 cofounded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African American History. An active member of the AfricanAmerican 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 ofBurroughs 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 Chicagos 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 19851986 served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress . As classmates, the two joined the NAACP Youth Council. She earned teachers 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, TaylorBurroughs 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. TaylorBurroughs married the artist Bernard Goss , in 1939, and they divorced in 1947. In 1949, she married Charles Gordon Burroughs and they rema

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