“We live in days of Great Change, a shuffling of status and symbols,” Dr. Clyde Taylor wrote in 1973. That strong voice of the Black liberation movement took a final breath on January 24. Born Clyde Russell Taylor on July 3, 1931, in Boston, he was the youngest of eight children of his parents, Frank and E. Alice (Tyson) Taylor. It was there that he met several Black literary and political activists, including Toni Morrison and Amiri Baraka. Two years later, Taylor moved to San Francisco and married Martella Wilson.
