Today in Black History: August 6

This article commemorates two significant dates in African American history occurring on the same day in different years. In 1848, Susie Baker King Taylor was born into slavery but secretly gained literacy and went on to serve as the first Black Army nurse and teacher to Union troops during the Civil War, later authoring the only Civil War memoir by an African American woman. Exactly 117 years later in 1965, President Lyndon B.