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 * For anyone else reviewing this, here's a diff between the proposed edits below and the actual article Mildred D. Taylor. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 19:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

=Mildred D Taylor=

Mildred Delois Taylor (born September 13 1943 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American author, known for her works exploring the struggle faced by African-American families in the Deep South.

Biography
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Author's Statement
These anecdotes became very clear in Mildred’s mind. In fact, once she recalled that as the adults talked about the past “I began to visualize all the family who had once known the land, and I felt as if I knew them, too...” Taylor has talked about how much history was in the stories; some stories took place during times of slavery and some post-slavery.

Her saga about the Logan family is really based on her whole family history. For example, it starts out with The Land, which is based on the stories she heard about her great-grandfather, who was the son of a white plantation owner and a black woman in Alabama and how he purchased land. She is currently working on her last book, Logan, that finishes the saga off with the Logan family moving from Mississippi to Ohio.

In 1978 there was an ABC television miniseries adaptation of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. It starred Claudia McNeil(Big Ma) and Morgan Freeman(Uncle Hammer).

Books Written
Logan Family Series In this beautifully-written first book about the Logan Family, we're introduced to them. Cassie loves to listen to the trees. But can she save the old forest from being turned into lumber? Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, it is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. Dramatic sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, this book continues the story of the family's struggle during the Great Depression. Set in Mississippi in the 1930s, this is a gripping story of racial injustice. Cassie recounts harrowing events during late 1941 while she is a high school senior attending school in Jackson, Mississippi. Three harrowing, unforgettable days in the life of an African-American high school girl dreaming of law school. Caught up in the center of tense racial dramas unfolding around her, Cassie Logan is forced to confront the adult world as never before. About the Logan patriarch David when he was 10 years old. Copyright violations removed Hers fold  (t/a/c) 19:35, 13 February 2009 (UTC) The son of a prosperous Anglo landowner and a former slave, Paul-Edward Logan is unlike any other boy he knows. At the age of fourteen, he sets out toward the only dream he has ever had: to find land every bit as good as his father's, and make it his own.
 * 1975: Song of the Trees
 * 1976: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
 * 1981: Let the Circle Be Unbroken
 * 1990: Mississippi Bridge (narrated by the Logan's Anglo friend Jeremy Simms.)
 * 1990: The Road to Memphis
 * 1995: The Well: David's Story
 * 2001: The Land (Mildred D. Taylor)

Other Books: Based on the trips Taylor took to the South as a child with her family. In the 1930s in rural Mississippi, the four Logan children witness the course of a relationship between an AfricanAmerican and Anglo man in 1930s Mississippi that eventually becomes violent.
 * 1987: The Gold Cadillac
 * 1987: The Friendship