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LETTER: Farmington's Underground Railroad Role
Regarding "On Path Out Of Slavery: Tracing the Steps Of Conductor Of The Underground Railroad" [May 19, Living], celebrating Harriet Tubman of Maryland: Let us not forget that in Farmington was an important station on that "railroad," with the town...Tags: Railway Transportation, Transportation, Slavery, Robin Williams, Travel
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Taking the Kids -- and learning about the star spangled banner
Taking the KidsThe flag was just what the major ordered. It was gigantic -- 42-by-30-feet -- so big that the flag maker couldn't even lay it out in her house. Each star was two feet wide! This was during the War of 1812 and Major George Armistead, the commander of...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Francis Scott Key, Trips and Vacations, Washington, DC, Inner Harbor
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Smithsonian to preserve, display Edisto slave cabin
The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.One of this area's few remaining slave cabins seemed certain to be lost to history. The two-room, wood-sided building, once one of dozens of similar cabins on Point of Pines plantation, had suffered from decades of neglect, a pronounced lean and lots of...Tags: Tuskegee Airmen, Wars and Interventions, Slavery, Employees, Washington, DC
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The Philadelphia Inquirer Karen Heller column
The Philadelphia InquirerThe sign adjacent to historic Mount Zion A.M.E. Church in Woolwich Township, a one-story white frame building, usually reads, "All Are Welcome." But on Sunday, parishioners discovered vandals had scrambled the letters to produce "No Nigers Welcome."...Tags: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slavery, Human Interest, Religion and Belief
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Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions"
Winning Law Day Essay: "Equality in College Admissions" By Elizabeth Sherwood North Central Michigan College student There are many people who have played an important role in the journey to equality for all. The most notable of those people...Tags: Social Issues, Justice and Rights, Discrimination, Civil Rights, University of South Carolina
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RAISING AWARENESS
Niagara Gazette, Niagara Falls, N.Y.Community leaders gathered Friday at Niagara Falls City Hall to talk about issues of discrimination as part of the YWCA's 2013 Stand Against Racism campaign. The speakers evoked leaders in race relations as the spoke out about America's struggle to...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Social Issues, Justice and Rights, Discrimination, Civil Rights
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Howard County datebook Datebook
Sunday, April 7 Remembrance service The Holocaust Remembrance Committee of the Jewish Federation of Howard County and the Howard County Board of Rabbis will host a service at 6 p.m. at Beth Shalom Congregation, 8070 Harriet Tubman Lane in Columbia....Tags: Mother's Day, Entertainment, Judaism, Event Planning, Ellicott City
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Her faith journey is to spread God's word
South Bend TribuneHer faith journey has varied over the years, yet she continues moving as a servant of the people with a deep faith in God.Pastor Debra D. Givens is a singer, teacher, and calls herself a warrior and true servant of God. Last week, she shared with me her...Tags: Religion and Belief
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Monuments and foreign aid aren't good uses for federal funds today
Harriet Tubman certainly deserves recognition, but why are we funding with federal dollars a $21 million monument and visitor center in her honor at a time when we are closing national parks, shutting down FAA control towers and dealing with sequester...Tags: Perry Hall, Martin O'Malley
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Tubman getting much-deserved honor
We commend President Barack Obama for designating the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument ("A monument to Md. abolitionist," March 26). Just days after the centennial of her death, Harriet Tubman is finally receiving the national...
Tags: Dorchester County, Barack Obama, Conservation Fund, Preservation Maryland, Martin O'Malley
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Honoring Harriet Tubman
President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...
Tags: Railway Transportation, Dorchester County, Wars and Interventions, Transportation, Slavery
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Obama establishes Tubman park on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore on Monday as a national monument to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom....
Tags: Dorchester County, Slavery, Human Interest, Environmental Issues, Barack Obama
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