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It Jes' Happened
When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
By Don Tate
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- ISBN
- 978-1-60060-260-3
- Publisher
- Lee & Low
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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on May 1, 2012 | Fiction
Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1854 and spent his first eighty years on the same Alabama plantation, working as a sharecropper after Emancipation. Late in life, in 1935, Traylor moved to Montgomery, where he tried to eke out a living selling pencils on the street. For some reason he himself could never explain beyond "It jes' happened," at the age of eighty-five he began to draw on scraps of cardboard as he sat on a wooden crate on a downtown street. He drew s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
