Susie Baker King Taylor

I would like to share with you a story of one women people still remember.

     Susie Baker King Taylor was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. As the author of Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, she was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences.
Susie Baker, the daughter of slaves, was born in Liberty County on August 6, 1848. When she was about seven years old, her owner allowed her to go to Savannah to live with her grandmother. Despite Georgia's harsh laws against the formal education of African Americans, she attended two secret schools taught by black women. From them she gained the rudiments of literacy, then extended her education with the help of two white youths, both of whom knowingly violated law and custom.
More about this story you can find on these links:

• http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1097 
• http://www.oppapers.com/essays/Susie-King-Taylor/166083
• http://www.kingtisdell.org/sktaylor.htmI
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