Hidden Figures: Susie King Taylor #BlackHERstoryMonth 18/28 (Patreon)

Hidden Figures: Susie King Taylor #BlackHERstoryMonth 18/28

Susie King Taylor was the first Black Army nurse. She tended to an all Black army troop named the 1st South Carolina Volunteers (Union), later redesignated the 33rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment, for four years during the Civil War. As the author of 'Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers,' she was the only African-American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime experiences. She was also the first African American to teach openly in a school for former slaves in Georgia. At this school in Savannah, Georgia, she taught children during the day and adults at night. She is in the 2018 class of inductees of the Georgia Women of Achievement. Susie King Taylor was born a slave at a plantation in Liberty County, Georgia, on August 6, 1848, as Susan Ann Baker. When she was about seven years old, her owner allowed her to go to Savannah to live with her grandmother, Dolly. Despite Georgia's harsh laws against the formal education of African Americans, Dolly, with whom Taylor lived for much of her childhood, supported Taylor's education by sending her to an illegal school run by a free African-American woman. Her education ended when she was forced to return to her mother after Dolly was arrested at a suburban church meeting for singing freedom hymns. After the outbreak of the Civil War, Taylor and many other African Americans fled to St. Simons Island, occupied at the time by Union forces. Within days her educational advantages came to the attention of army officers, who offered to obtain books for her if she would organize a school. She thereby became the first black teacher for freed African-American students to work in a freely operating freedmen's school in Georgia. She taught 40 children in day school and adults at night. She taught there until October 1862, when the island was evacuated. While at the school on St. Simons Island, Baker married Edward King, a black noncommissioned officer in the First South Carolina Volunteers of African Descent (later reflagged as 33rd United States Colored Troops). For three years she moved with her husband’s regiment, serving as the first African American Army nurse and laundress, and teaching many of the black soldiers to read and write during their off-duty hours. After a trip to Louisiana in the 1890s, she wrote her memoir, titled Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, which were privately published in 1902. She died 10 years later. She is buried next to her second husband at Mount Hope Cemetery in Roslindale, Massachusetts. ****************** Merchandise! MAKE SURE U GETTA SHIRT!! https://www.teepublic.com/user/sssseren Follow me on social media! Twitter: @seren_sensei Instagram: @sensei_aishitemasu Personal Tumblr: http://sensei-aishitemasu.tumblr.com Tumblr for my work: https://sssseren.tumblr.com Snapchat: sssseren GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/tc5wh7q Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seren_sensei ****************** Did you know I wrote a book? ☺️ 'So, About That... A Year of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture' Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/About-That-Contemporary-Essays-Culture-ebook/dp/B013V0CHK6 Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013V0CHK6 Digital download (e-book): https://gumroad.com/l/IkUa ****************** Links: 'Visible Woman: Susie King Taylor’s Civil War Memoir:' http://www.clarabartonmuseum.org/taylor/ 'Susie King Taylor - Teacher, Nurse, Author:' https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/bindingwounds/pdfs/BioKingTaylorOB130.pdf Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S.C Volunteers (Download): https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesmy00taylgoog Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S. C. Volunteers (Electronic Edition): http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/taylorsu.html Susie King Taylor: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/taylorsu/frontis.html Susie King Taylor (1848-1912): https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/susie-king-taylor-1848-1912 'Susie King Taylor, Iconic Heroine, A Nation's Midwife:' https://civilwartalk.com/threads/susie-king-taylor-iconic-heroine-a-nations-midwife.118196/ Taylor, Susie King: https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/susie-king-taylor 'Taylor, Susan (Susie) Baker King (1848-1912):' http://www.blackpast.org/aah/taylor-susan-susie-baker-king-1848-1912 'Susie King Taylor (1848-1912), Educator, Author, Activist:' https://americacomesalive.com/2012/02/13/susie-king-taylor-1848-1912-educator-author-activist/ Susie King Taylor Biography: http://www.nursing-theory.org/famous-nurses/Susie-King-Taylor.php '10 FACTS ABOUT SUSIE KING TAYLOR - 1ST BLACK NURSE:' http://blackartblog.blackartdepot.com/black-motivational-posters/susie-king-taylor.html Susie Taylor (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susie_Taylor