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Writer Shirlee Taylor Haizlip.

Writer Shirlee Taylor Haizlip. Her book "The Sweeter the Juice: a Family Memoir in Black and White, (Simon & Schuster), chronicles her exploration of six generations of her multiracial family tree. Haizlip is a light-skinned African-American. Her father was a prominent black Baptist minister in Connecticut. Her mother was the descendant of an Irish immigrant and a mulatto slave. The lineage of Haizlip's mother's family was unclear because early in Haizlip's mother's life she was separated from the rest of her family who "disappeared" into the white world.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, January 31, 1994: Interview with David Garrow; Interview with Shirlee Taylor Haizlip; Review of the film "Blink."
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A History of the Reproductive Rights Movement.

David Garrow is a Pulitzer Prize winning author for his biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., "Bearing the Cross." His newest book is a history of the struggle for birth control rights during the 1920s and 30s and how that paved the way for the abortion rights struggle. Along the way, Garrow examines how these rights are tied in with issues of privacy and sexuality. Garrow found that the arguments used in the birth control rights struggle were the same ones used in the struggle for abortion rights.

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