The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

Interested in the role his family played, Mock wrote a book called ‘The Last Station: Underground Railroad of Quaker Corner.’ It’s available to purchase at the Bedford County Historical Society.

With that, he introduced speaker William Switala, a 52-year borough resident, retired educator and author of three books about the Underground Railroad, a term that “came along as an attempt to ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors ... She promptly pulled out a book and feigned reading it. The ploy was enough to fool the men.

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

In his episodic debut, Academy Award™ winner Barry Jenkins tackles a topical and electrifying subject that speaks directly to this in the new Amazon Original series The Underground Railroad on ...

the civil rights movement and of course the underground railroad. There are thousands of those items. “Some of these items are very, very delicate and old. We have rare books from the early ...