Former slave Bill Traylor's artistic legacy under threat from forgers

Dozens of fakes are on the market after a drawing once owned by Steven Spielberg and Alice Walker sold for a record $507,000When Steven Spielberg finished filming his adaptation of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, the Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the struggles of African American women in the last century, he gave her a gift. It was a drawing by Bill Traylor, who died in 1949, having faced his own struggles as a black man born into slavery in Alabama, working on plantations and livin