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I've edited a page. It is below. I did email via wiki the 2 ppl who wrote 2 me in Dec but they've not answered. So whoever answers this, pls look @ the page Ive edited below. Thx.

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I do have to say that I was intially very impressed - usually we don't see a whole lot come out of these {{2nd chance}} things. Unfortunately, on taking a closer look at the edits you've proposed, much of the content you had below was directly copied from one of the sources you gave. Wikipedia is licensed under the GFDL, and therefore cannot accept copyrighted text for its articles. For that reason, we take copyright violations very seriously. I've removed the copyrighted sections below, and am declining to unblock you at this time.

However, since you do seem to have put a good amount of work into this, I would highly encourage you to keep working on this. The content you had was potentially very useful, however we can't accept it in the form you gave us. If you can find some way to rephrase the content so that you're giving us the same information but in your own words (and that doesn't mean just changing a few words here or there, it has to be completely original), then we can probably look into removing your block. As I said earlier, what you had below was much more than what we usually get for these offers, and I probably would have unblocked you if it hadn't been mostly copyrighted. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 19:43, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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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. Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 19:29, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mildred D Taylor

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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

1975: Song of the Trees

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?

1976: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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.

1981: Let the Circle Be Unbroken

Dramatic sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, this book continues the story of the family's struggle during the Great Depression.

1990: Mississippi Bridge (narrated by the Logan's Anglo friend Jeremy Simms.)

Set in Mississippi in the 1930s, this is a gripping story of racial injustice.

1990: The Road to Memphis

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.

1995: The Well: David's Story

About the Logan patriarch David when he was 10 years old. Copyright violations removed Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 19:35, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

2001: The Land (Mildred D. Taylor)

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.

Other Books:

1987: The Gold Cadillac

Based on the trips Taylor took to the South as a child with her family.

1987: The Friendship

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.

References

External Links

Mississippi Writers Page Links: Mildred D.Taylor

Mildred D.Taylor @ Penguin Publishers Website

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