E. Alice Taylor facts for kids

E. Alice Taylor (1892–January 1, 1986, age 94) was an African-American entrepreneur, teacher, and community organizer who was an officer and board member of the Boston, Massachusetts NAACP for 50 years. In 1927 she founded a branch of Annie Malone's Poro School and Beauty Shoppe, which she ran for 15 years, until it was closed at the start of World War II. The school had grown to become one of New England's largest minority-owned businesses, with a staff of 15 teaching 150 students each year. She was a member of numerous community service organizations.

Personal life

E. Alice Taylor, had 8 children. Her 6 oldest sons and daughters were born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Following the horrific lynching of a young man, John Carter, in 1927, Taylor along with her husband and kids decided to move to Boston, where she had been offered the opportunity to open and manage one of Mrs. Malone’s Poro schools of beauty culture. Her daughter Alice E. Taylor, was born in Boston on March 28, 1928. Her 8th child, Clyde R. Taylor, was born in 1931.