Last year, Annette Hubbell, a white actor in San Diego, sued the San Diego County Library after it canceled a scheduled ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman became an abolitionist, humanitarian and leader of the Underground Railroad, ...

Johnathan Walker became famous as a maritime abolitionist when the government of Florida branded his hand with “S.S.” for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a ...

The Underground Railroad was a secret network of abolitionists who helped an estimated 100,000 people escape the confines of slavery. Composed of farms, homes, stores and schoolhouses, it provided a ...

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DORCHESTER COUNTY, MD -- Weather played a significant role in the success of Harriet Tubman's missions to free enslaved people via the Underground Railroad. The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad ...

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. One of those dreamers was Harriet Tubman. The Mansfield/Richland County Public Library hosted Harriet Tubman: Straight Up Outta’ the Underground as part of its ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The oldest-living relative of Harriet Tubman, 96-year-old Pauline Copes Johnson from Auburn, says she never thought she would be alive to see this happen, but she’s happy she is.

Statues of slave-owning Founding Fathers have represented New York in the U.S. Capitol for nearly 150 years. Now, state lawmakers want to replace one of the statues with a famous New Yorker who helped ...

Harriet Tubman Bumps Slave-Owning Andrew Jackson Off Front of $20 Bill The president who signed the Indian Removal Act, which pushed thousands of indigenous people off their land through events like ...