Susie King Taylor

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Nov. 25 – In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese…
Nov. 26 – In 1942, President Roosevelt ordered…
Nov. 27 – In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who’d resigned.
Nov. 28 – In 1943, President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin met in Tehran during World War II…
Nov. 18 – In 1976, Spain’s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
Nov. 19 – In 1863, President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
Nov. 20 – In 1945, 24 Nazi leaders went on trial before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany….
Nov. 21 – n 1995, the presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that have left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II…
Nov. 22 – In 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas…
Nov. 24 – In 1963, Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded…

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November 18, 2011

By: Pure History

BORN A SLAVE, AS SUSIE BAKER IN AUG. 6, 1848, SERVED AS A TEACHER, COOK, NURSE AND LAUNDRESS WITH THE 33 U.S. COLORED TROOPS. REARED BY GRANDMOTHER SAVANNAH, GA., WON FREEDOM AT AGE 14 AFTER SERVING ON FEDERAL GUNBOAT. AUTHORED A BLACK WOMANS CIVIL WAR MEMORIES. BOARDED A GUNBOAT DURING ATTACK ON FORT PULASKI. AFTER SUCCESSFUL ATTACK MAJOR GENERAL HUNTER ANNOUNCED THAT ALL SLAVES IN AREA WOULD BE FREE. AT AGE OF 14 SUSIE REMAINED ON ST. SIMONS ISLAND SERVING WITH THE SOLDIERS OF 1^st SC VOLUNTEERS. SHE TAUGHT THE CHILDREN OF THE ISLAND, HELPED SOLDIERS WITH READING AND WRITING. SERVED UNTIL END OF THE WAR. AT THE END OF WAR SHE CONTINUED HER LIFE OF SERVICE IN BOSTON, SHE CONTINUED TO FIGHT FOR JUSTICE.