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Taylor was born in 1906 in Birkdale, Southport, which was then part of Lancashire, only child of cotton merchant Percy Lees Taylor and schoolmistress Constance Sumner Taylor (née Thompson). [3] In 1919 his family returned to Ashton-on-Ribble , Preston, where both his parents' families had lived for several decades. [ 4 ]
Taylor's Wisconsin Labor Advocate was the official voice of Wisconsin's labor party in 1887. [12] Taylor's rapid rise in La Crosse's and Wisconsin's labor movement drew attention to his race at a time when the nation was reevaluating its racial attitudes. His opponents in the labor movement increasingly reminded him that he was black.
Jerome Cogburn Taylor (born August 2, 1963) is an American environmental activist, policy analyst, and game designer. Taylor cofounded the Niskanen Center , a Washington, D.C. –based think tank that, among other things, advocates for market environmentalism and the adoption of a carbon tax system to combat global warming .
On February 1, 2023, Taylor and Taylor started their mental health podcast, The Squeeze. "Host @taylautner's introduction to mental health was at a young age, witnessing friends and family suffer ...
William Lewis Taylor (October 4, 1931 – June 28, 2010) was a Jewish-American attorney, lobbyist and activist who advocated on behalf of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement and played a major role in drafting civil rights legislation.
Taylor made no attempt to sell his pamphlet, but instead put together a long list of names of lords, ministers, and people of all classes, and sent out 11,000 copies for free distribution. Some years later President Rutherford B. Hayes praised Taylor's effort, saying that the pamphlet was worth more to the American Union than a regiment of ...
Advocates and elected officials gathered in city hall to remember Breonna Taylor four years since her death and issued demands for police reform. Louisville advocates call for more transparency ...
Then-congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene defended keeping all statues and monuments, even of unsavory figures, for the purpose of teaching history during an appearance at a City Council ...