Artist, teacher, museum director, and poet, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs has spent much of her life actively encouraging an appreciation for the African heritage of Afro-Americans. In the early phase of her career, from the late 1940s through the 1960s, she worked in Chicago primarily as an artist and art teacher. Her prints and watercolors earned her several prizes and a reputation as a promising painter. For example, she won an honorable mention in 1947 for a print exhibited at Atlanta University, which also awarded her first prize in its Watercolor Purchase competition in 1955. During the same period, her concern with the education of youth combined with her interest in the visual arts in the production of two illustrated books for children, Jasper, The Drummin' Boy (1947) and Did You Feed My Cow? (1955). However, beginning in 1961 with her founding of the Ebony Museum of African-American History in honor of Jean...