Carrie Steele Logan Dies: Founder of Oldest Black Orphanage
She wrote her autobiography and sold every copy herself — just to raise enough money to build a home for the children nobody wanted. Carrie Steele Logan, a formerly enslaved woman who worked as a steamboat steward in Atlanta, started gathering abandoned Black children in the 1870s, tucking them into her own home before she had anything better. The Carrie Steele Orphan Home opened in 1888. It's still operating today, now called the Carrie Steele-Pitts Home — over 130 years of children, all because one woman refused to walk past a problem.
November 3, 1900
126 years ago
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