Reply #48: Clifton Taulbert is an ORU grad

[bobbieinok]

http://www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMu...

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He was the winner of the NAACP's 27th Image Award for Literary Work: NonFiction for his book When We Were Colored. According to Beth Pinsher of the Dallas Morning News, the director of the film made from this book had difficulty getting the movie released because Once Upon a Time ... When We Were Colored is not a political film. It's a nostalgic coming-of-age tale about a boy learning to deal with the segregation imposed on his small Mississippi town in the years following World War II. His book The Last Train North was the winner of the Mississippi Library Association Award and is the sequel to the best-selling When We Were Colored. It traces the author's journey during the sixties from Mississippi to racially integrated Saint Louis. In his newest book, which is for children, the memorable characters from Eight Habits of the Heart, When We Were Colored, and his other popular works appear in his first picture book called Little Cliff and the Porch People. In the book, Little Cliff's great-grandmother needs a pound of butter to make her candied sweet potatoes, and she sends Cliff to get it for her.

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