| LC control no. | n 87943995 |
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| Personal name heading | Taylor, Susie King, 1848-1912 |
| Variant(s) | Taylor, Suzie King, 1848-1912 |
| Birth date | 18480806 |
| Death date | 1912 |
| Place of birth | Liberty County, Ga. |
| Place of death | Boston, Mass. |
| Found in | Her A black woman's Civil War memoirs, 1988: CIP t.p. (Susie King Taylor) LC data base, 11-20-87 (hdg.: Taylor, Susie King, b. 1848) Reminiscences of my life in camp, 2006: CIP t.p. (Suzie King Taylor) The New Georgia Encyclopedia, via WWW, Mar. 15, 2012 (Susie King Taylor (1848-1912); Susie Baker King Taylor was the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia and was the only African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences; born Susie Baker on Aug. 6, 1848 in Liberty County, the daughter of slaves; married Edward King, a black noncommissioned officer in the Union forces, who died in September 1866; in the 1870s, she traveled to Boston, where she met and married Russell Taylor) BlackPast.org, via WWW, Mar.15, 2012 (Taylor, Susan (Susie) Baker King (1848-1912); born on the Grest Farm in Liberty County, Georgia; attended secret schools taught by black women in Savannah; fled to Union-occupied St. Simons Island during the Civil War, where she organized a school for the children on the island and became the first black teacher to openly instruct African American students in Georgia; died in 1912 at the age of sixty-four in Boston) |
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