*As time passes, the details of our great African American historical figures begin to feel more like legends than concrete facts. At the beginning of this Women’s History Month in 2024, and as March ...

(The Root) — Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 22: How Harriet Tubman became a legend. In 1849, a young woman hurried along a path cutting through a marsh in Poplar Neck, Md., near the town of Preston.