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On Friday, Upper Darby unveiled a historical marker to help residents learn about the township’s role in the Underground Railroad. Township officials, including Mayor Edward Brown, were joined ...
On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.” Connie Martin, an Illinois Humanities Road ...
The content was replaced with a collage of Underground Railroad stamps from the U.S. Postal Service that highlight “Black/White Cooperation” in transporting escaped slaves to freedom in the north.
The National Park Service on Monday returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad ... for small commemorative stamps of five abolitionists ...
Tubman’s stamp is featured in this assortment. But the webpage’s introduction has also changed to describe the Underground Railroad as “one of the most significant expressions of the ...
A large image of and a quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad ... of five commemorative stamps showing Tubman alongside ...
The National Park Service has edited a page on its website that describes the Underground ... Railroad for eight years.” In place of Tubman’s portrait is a collage of five U.S. Postal Service ...
(WSET) — Edith Edmunds, a 99-year-old resident of Halifax County, is weaving history into her quilts, using her lifelong passion for sewing to educate others about the Underground Railroad.
The Underground Railroad was a network of people all over working together to aid in freedom. Many people traveled through New York's Southern Tier on their way, and made stops in the Binghamton area.
Were you Seen at Arias in the Afternoon, the Underground Railroad Education Center's 20th Anniversary Celebration, hosted by state Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy and featuring a performance by ...
Exterior shot of the historical St. Paul AME Church, which was a station on the Underground Railroad in Lexington up to freedom in Ohio. Tasha Poullard [email protected] The stairs are ...