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“By the time I entered high school, I had a driving compulsion to paint a truer picture of Black people. . . I wanted to show a Black family united in love and pride, of which the reader would like to be a part.”

—Mildred D. Taylor

The Brown Bookshelf
Interview with Mildred D. Taylor
Interview from Booklist
(September 15, 2001)

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MISSISSIPPI WRITERS: Mildred Taylor
Acceptance Speech for the 1997 Alan Award
More about why Taylor wrote Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, and what she hopes readers get out of it? If so, this little acceptance speech at the 1997 ALAN Awards is for you.

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(The ALAN award is award given by the National Council of Teachers of English to honor significant contributions to the field of young adult and adolescent literature).

More Books by Mildred D. Taylor

Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
Call Number: F TAY
ISBN: 0803747489
Publication Date: 1981
Four black children growing up in rural Mississippi during the Depression experience racial antagonisms and hard times, but learn from their parents the pride and self-respect they need to survive. ." Coretta Scott King Award.

Interest level: Grades 9 - 12
Road to Memphis by Mildred D. Taylor; Phyllis J. Fogelman (Editor)
Call Number: F TAY
ISBN: 0803703406
Publication Date: 1990
Sadistically teased by two white boys in 1940's rural Mississippi, a black youth severely injures one of the boys with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
The Land by Mildred D. Taylor; Max Ginsburg (Illustrator)
Call Number: F TAY
ISBN: 0803719507
Publication Date: 2001
After the Civil War Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, finds himself caught between the two worlds of colored folks and white folks as he pursues his dream of owning land of his own.