12 Facts About Margaret Taylor-Burroughs

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs co-founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, now the DuSable Museum of African American History.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs was a prolific writer, with her efforts directed toward the exploration of the Black experience and toward children, especially to their appreciation of their cultural identity and to their introduction and growing awareness of art.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs is credited with the founding of Chicago's Lake Meadows Art Fair in the early 1950s.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs 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, Margaret Taylor-Burroughs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in art education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she earned her Master of Arts degree in art education, in 1948.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs married the artist Bernard Goss, in 1939, and they divorced in 1947.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs taught at DuSable High School on Chicago's south side from 1946 to 1969, and from 1969 to 1979 was a professor of humanities at Kennedy-King College, a community college in Chicago.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs taught African American art and culture at Elmhurst College in 1968.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs was named Chicago park district commissioner by Harold Washington in 1985, a position she held until 2010.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs Burroughs is the recipient of an honorary doctorate, as well as the President's Humanitarian Award.

The institution was originally known as the Ebony Museum of Negro History and Art and made its debut in the living room of their house at 3806 S Michigan Avenue in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's south side, and Taylor-Burroughs served as its first Executive Director.

Margaret Taylor-Burroughs believes that Burroughs greatly admired Du Bois and writes that she campaigned to bring him to Chicago to lecture to audiences.