from all races learning life lessons and learning to discover their strengths, passions, and talents. The girl scouts were founded on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia by Juliette Gordon "Daisy" Low. Now in the beginning, the girl scouts were a all white group.
That was until the efforts of Sarah Randolph Bailey. She was born in 1885 in Macon, Ga and was an educator and missionary who wanted help and guide trouble young girls. She volunteered and she worked at a Macon rehabilitation and detention center for girls where she was inspired to form the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA). Then in 1935 she gathered a group of black girls wanting them to learn the same skills and life lessons that the all white girl scouts were teaching, so; she organized 15 Girl Reserve troops in Georgia. The official Girl Scouts of America took noticed and invited Bailey to organize the first Black Girl Scout troop where in 1940 they were introduced as official Scouts. Bailey became the chairwoman for the Macon Girl Scouts's Central Committee where she earned the highest honor given to an adult by the scouts, the Thanks badge.
Bailey passed in 1972 and in 1994, the Macon Girl Scouts Center was renamed the Sarah Bailey Service Center.
Born in 1938, Dr. Gloria D. Scott (Oooo, a distant cousin maybe?) was the first African American President of the Girl Scouts. She is an educator and has a degree in zoology (also the first African American to receive this degree from Indiana University) and a PH.D in Higher Education. She served as president of the Girl Scouts from 1975-1978 and to this day she is on the board of directors. 
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