Article: Susie King Taylor

Article: Susie King Taylor

08/10/2010

Article

This Atlantic newspaper source features a 2010 article on the life of Susie King Taylor- a Civil War African American nurse, educator and laundress- by Ta-Nehisi Coates. The article provides a short biography on Taylor's life and an excerpt from her autobiography on her life as a teacher in secret schools in Savannah, Georgia in the early 1860's.

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