Gardner C. Taylor Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Biography== Taylor, who was of [[African Americans|African American]] heritage, was born in 1918 in [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana]], to Rev. Washington M. and Selina Taylor, and was the grandson of emancipated slaves. He grew up in the segregated South of the early 20th century. He graduated from the [[Oberlin College]] School of Theology in 1940,<ref name="oberlin"> {{cite journal |last=Fowler |first=Yvonne Gay |date=Spring 2004 |title=The Dean of Black Preachers |journal=Oberlin Alumni Magazine |volume=99 |issue=4 |url= http://www.oberlin.edu/alummag/spring2004/notes.html |access-date= 2007-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200217172115/https://www2.oberlin.edu/alummag/spring2004/notes.html|archive-date=17 February 2020}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page