Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

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Television executive and author Shirlee Taylor Haizlip was born on September 3, 1937 in Stratford, Connecticut. She graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her B.A. Degree in 1959, and Harvard University’s School of Urban Design with her M.A. Degree in urban planning in 1966. In 1975, Haizlip joined WBNB-TV where she became the first African American to serve as.

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  1. In her widely acclaimed, bestselling memoir, The Sweeter the Juice, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip asked us to redefine our concepts of race and family by examining her biracial heritage - how different gradations of dark and light skin led to a split in her mother's nuclear family, and how various relatives have been reunited many years later, some of them previously unaware of their layered racial.
  2. With his wife, former President of the Ebell of Los Angeles and best-selling author Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, Harold co-authored the book 'In the Garden of Our Dreams: Memoirs of a Marriage.'

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First woman to manage a CBS television affiliate, WBNB in St. Thomas, Virgina Island. This pioneer later went to WNET-TV-Channel 13, New York, New York where she later became a corporate officer. She later became the author of The Sweeter the Juice.
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