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The Life and Legacy of Georgia Geechee Susie King Taylor
A website created by the Susie King Taylor Women's Institute & Ecology Center for research and exhibition purposes.
Susie King Taylor Honored in Boston
Above: District Vice Commander of Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Roderick Fraser (US. Navy -retired), Mayor Kim Janey, Hermina Glass-Hill, and public historian Rebecca Byrd-Smith.
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Finally! A monument for Susie King Taylor at her Boston burial site.
Susie King Taylor Women's Institute and Ecology Center's executive director Hermina Glass-Hill represented Susie King Taylor's home state of Georgia and hometowns of Midway and Savannah in Boston in October 2021 at the dedication of a monument to honor the Geechee Heroine of Freedom. After 109 years without a marker at her burial site in Boston, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War honored her service with a ceremony attended by Boston's Mayor Kin Janey.
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