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Marquis Taylor is a sixth-year Ph.D. Candidate in History at Northwestern University. His dissertation explores how Black college students have shaped political and social movements across the first half of the twentieth century. His dissertation project has received support from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, The Graduate School at Northwestern University, and the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies. In 2023, Marquis was awarded a Mellon Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship in Public History, where he served as Lead Researcher for the Tenement Museum’s latest permanent exhibition, Union of Hope: 1869, which explores the lives of a Black family residing in lower Manhattan during the Civil War era.
Vivian Malone and James Hood calmly faced reporters as they prepared to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963, symbolizing the determination of Black youth in the face of those who were staunchly opposed to desegregation.
