Beneath the Spanish moss draping over Taylor Square Saturday morning, roughly 300 people gathered around a stage held by local leaders. Among them were Patt Gunn of Susie King Taylor Center for Jubilee, Hermina Glass-Hill from the Susie King Taylor Women’s Institute and Ecology Center, and Savannah Mayor Van Johnson.
It was about 30 minutes before noon when Johnson took to the podium, and he told those in attendance to look around. “This is what Savannah looks like.”
Thirty minutes later and some 30 yards away, a Taylor Square sign was unveiled on the square’s south end. Now named for Susie King Taylor, Saturday’s dedication marks a lot of firsts: the first time a Savannah square has been named for an African American, a formerly enslaved person, and a woman.
Taylor was a nurse during the…
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