May 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ethiopia: Writing - Ethiopia: Minority RPCVs: The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project at Starkville High School: Mildred Taylor joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia as an English and history teacher for two years
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May 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Ethiopia: Writing - Ethiopia: Minority RPCVs: The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project at Starkville High School: Mildred Taylor joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia as an English and history teacher for two years
Mildred Taylor joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia as an English and history teacher for two years
Mildred Taylor joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia as an English and history teacher for two years
Biography of Mildred D. Taylor
by Carrie Margaret Steele (SHS)
Mildred D. Taylor was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on September 13, 1943. She is the daughter of Wilbert Lee and Deletha Marie (Davis) Taylor. Even though she was born in the South, she did not grow up there. Yet, for Ms. Taylor, the South still holds pleasant memories as the home of her ancestors. When she was only three months old, her parents moved her and her sister to live in the North. They moved to a newly-integrated Ohio town called Toledo. When she went to school, she was the only black child in her class. Her father decided to leave the South in the mid-1940's because he did not want his children to live their lives as he had lived his, in a segregated, racist society that allowed little or no opportunity to blacks. Over the years she came to know the South through the yearly trips her family took to Mississippi and through the stories told whenever the family gathered. Mildred Taylor was quoted in Something About the Author, as saying, "As a small child, I loved the South. In my early years, the trip was a marvelous adventure, a twenty-hour picnic that took us into another time and another world." Her father told her many stories that he had been told when he was a boy. Some of the stories he had actually lived himself. She has used some of those stories in her novels. Ms. Taylor attended the University of Toledo.
After graduating she joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia as an English and history teacher for two years. When she returned, she attended the University of Colorado School of Journalism. She earned a Master of Arts degree there. While she was attending school, she worked with university officials and fellow students in structuring a Black Studies program at the university. Now she is a writer living in Colorado. She began writing her first book, Song of the Trees, in 1973. Mildred Taylor has won many awards for her books. Some of her books have been named Outstanding Book of the Year in The New York Times. She has won the Coretta Scott King award for three of her books. She also won the Newbery Medal in 1977 for Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. She has taken great pride in her heritage and provides historical fiction about life for black Americans. In all of her stories, she has shown the true vision of black families and their racial struggles.
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Story Source: The Mississippi Writers and Musicians Project at Starkville High School
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