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A Chester County-based organization promoting racial healing through storytelling is working with Longwood Gardens, Lincoln ...
Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's ...
The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative will be dedicating two of Ironton's historic sites in Ironton that were part of the Underground Railroad. On Wednesday at 10 a.m., a marker will ...
Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.
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 ...
The Underground Railroad was a loose network of people who work together to offer shelter and aid to freedom seekers from the South, and it ran through the Susquehanna Valley. In this episode of ...
The National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground Railroad after garnering outrage over its removal. In February, a photo and ...
The National Park Service has edited a page on its website that describes the Underground Railroad to reduce the emphasis on Harriet Tubman, instead highlighting “Black/White cooperation.” ...
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.
(KCTV) - The next step is underway for a vision to create a tourist attraction from the ruins of a long-gone town in Kansas City, Kansas, that was connected to the Underground Railroad. Monday ...
At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved Black Americans via the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.
A grant will unearth the story of the Underground Railroad in Northwest Indiana and allow it to be told. Indiana Landmarks, a nonprofit that aims to save and restore historic places across the ...