Margaret Burroughs

Artist Details

• First Name Margaret
• Maiden Name Taylor
• Alternate Name(s) Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs Margaret Goss Burroughs Margaret T. Burroughs
• Surname Burroughs
• Spouse’s Full Name Charles Gordon Burroughs; a museum curator married December 23, 1949 poet and founder of the Associated Negro Press
• Previous Spouse(s) Bernard Goss married 1939; divorced, 1947
• Names and Birth Years of Children Gayle Goss Toller (adopted) Paul Burroughs
• Birth Date November 1, 1917
• Birth Place St. Rose, Louisiana
• Death Date November 21, 2010
• Death Place Chicago, Illinois
• Ethnicity African-American
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Block Printer, Draftsman, Illustrator, Lithographer, Painter-Oil, Printmaker, Sculptor
• Training 1933: graduated from Englewood High School, Chicago, Illinois
  1937: graduated Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois; teaching certificate
  1946: BA in art education,, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  1948: MA in art education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  summers 1958–1960: Teachers College of Columbia University, graduate study
  1952–1953: Esmerelda Art School, Mexico City, Mexico
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
  
  South Side Community Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Studio Museum, New York, New York
  
  2015: The Art and Influence of Dr. Margaret T. Burroughs, DuSable Museum, Chicago, Illinois
  
   
• Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  The Johnson Collection, Spartanburg, South Carolina
  
  Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
  Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
  
  Oakton College, Des Plaines, Illinois
• Publications The Beginner's Guide to Collecting Fine Art, African American Style Ana M. Allen and Margaret Taylor Burroughs (1998) For Malcolm; poems on the life and the death of Malcolm X Dudley Randall and Margaret G. Burroughs, editors (1969) Interlude: seven musical poems by Frank Marshall Davis, Margaret T. Burroughs, editor. (1985) Minds flowing free: original poetry by "The Ladies" women's division of Cook County Department of Corrections, Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, editor (1986) A shared heritage: art by four African Americans by William E. Taylor and Harriet G. Warkel with essays by Margaret T. G. Burroughs and others (1996) A very special tribute in honor of a very special person, Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman, Margaret T. Burroughs, editor (1988) poems Did you feed my cow? Street games, chants, and rhymes, 1969 Jasper, the drummin' boy, 1947 What shall I tell my children who are Black?, 1968 What shall I tell my children?: An addenda (1975)
• Memberships DuSable Museum, Chicago, Illinois; co-founder
  
  South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, Illinois; founding member
  
   
• Awards 1989: inducted into Chicago Women's Hall of Fame, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1975: President's Humanitarian Award from Gerald Ford
  
  Paul Robeson Citation Award,
  
  Legends and Legacy Award from the Art Institute of Chicago
  
  1980: President Jimmy Carter appointed her a member of the National Commission on African-American History and Culture
  
  February 1, 1986, "Dr. Margaret Burroughs Day"
• Archive(s) Margaret Burroughs Papers, DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 1940-1968: Teacher, Dusable High School, Chicago, Illinois
  
  teacher, Kennedy-King Community College
  
  Writer, poet: For Malcolm: Poems on the Life and the Death of Malcolm X (1967), with Dudley Randall; What Shall I Tell My Children Who Are Black? (1968); Africa, My Africa! (1970); Whip me whop me pudding, and other stories of Riley Rabbit and his fabulous friends, 1966
  
  art director for the Negro Hall of Fame
  
  Book illustrator
• Website(s) page on Wikipedia
  
  page on Encyclopedia.com
  
  Burroughs recalls her part in establishing the South Side Community Art Center
  
  "Chicago Tonight" segment on PBS-WTTW
• Biography Alexander Taylor, a farmer, and his wife Octavia, a domestic laborer; in Chicago, he found work in a railroad roundhouse and she continued as a domestic laborer