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Richard Henderson came to Meadville in 1824, becoming the first permanent Black resident there. He had escaped from his owner at the age of 15. He did not take this dangerous expedition alone. He escaped...
Harriet Tubman was a key figure of the Underground Railroad, a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid slaves in their escape from their captors. A...
The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid enslaved men and women in their escape from their captors. The freedom network...
The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid enslaved men and women in their escape from their captors. The freedom network...
The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid enslaved men and women in their escape from their captors. The freedom network...
The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid enslaved men and women in their escape from their captors. The freedom network...
Three years ago, historian Lana Talbot talked about how visitors of the Sandwich First Baptist Church have seen and heard things in and around the church that cannot be explained by church authorities....
The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid slaves in their escape from their captors. The freedom...
One of William Still’s major accomplishments was teaching himself to read and write in a period when laws prohibited enslaved Africans and black people in general from doing so. Despite having little...
By day, he was a pastor of a church but by night, he was part of a secret network that helped slaves escape to freedom. The Reverend Samuel Green, a farmer and a Methodist preacher, was also a key Underground...
The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid slaves in their escape from their captors. Harriet Tubman (pictured)...
Abolitionist and Underground Railroad proponent Levi Coffin (pictured) was born on this day in 1798. As a Quaker, Coffin was led by religion to oppose slavery and reportedly helped thousands of slaves...
90-year-old Ed Dwight will at long last be able to fly into space. Jeff Bezos’s space venture company recently revealed that Dwight, the nation’s first black astronaut candidate, will be one...
Gladys Muhammad, an Indiana native, is working hard to preserve Harriet Tubman’s legacy. Following her early observations of the differences between her community and others, Muhammad commenced her...
The journey through Black history is highlighted by the cultural heritage of Black people and their expressions through art. Some beautiful works of art passionately painted by Black artists tell a colorful...
Over the past decades, many black films have stood out as a means to highlight and honor the accomplishments of black people world-wide. Some of these masterpieces capture the long history of racism and...
In 2020, a Christopher Columbus statue in Newark, New Jersey, was removed in the wake of the racial injustice protests that ensued nationwide and globally after the murder of George Floyd. On Thursday,...
The United States is experiencing an increase in the number of Black-owned businesses in the country, thanks to the renewed and sustained commitments and efforts to end the age-long color barriers and...
Black educator and abolitionist, George Boyer Vashon, gained recognition in his lifetime as a man of many firsts. Born July 25 1984 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, to his mother, Anne Vashon, and his father,...
Every person of African descent with links to slavery has their own narrative. For educationist Hallie Quinn Brown, her parents, Thomas Arthur Brown and Frances Jane Scroggins were former slaves. Her father...
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