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Harriet Tubman
Women's rights: The legacy of Harriet Tubman by Marcus Brooks America's Civil Right Movement was born out of the 1950s. However, Negroes' battle against equality and racism began during the slavery era. There were several key blacks who fought to have slavery outlawed. They were called "abolitionists" or those... More> Biography: Harriet Tubman by James Harvey Harriet Tubman is indeed an profile of black courage in the face of seemingly ovewhelming odds-and courage is what African Americans indeed needed during the dark days of American Slavery. As an abolitionist and deliverer of her people from oppressi... More>
	Book reviews: Stealing Secrets, How a Few Daring Women Deceived Generals, Impacted Battles, and Altered the Course of the Civil War, by H. Donald Winkler by Lois Henderson Winkler’s earlier 2008 book Goats and Scapegoats focused on the mistakes made during the Civil War by those who should have known better—the generals involved at the forefront of the conflict. In Stealing Secrets, Winkler goes behind the... More> Biography: Harriett Tubman by Denise Royal Harriet Tubman is an American hero. She is best known for her role as a “conductor” in the Underground Railroad. Tubman played a major role in freeing slaves from the South before the Civil War. Tubman was born Araminta Ross ... More>
Black history: The secret language of the Underground Railroad by Wendy Dawn A covert operation, the Underground Railroad, which helped slaves fleeing for freedom, developed a language of its own over time. Many of the descriptive linguistics took on real railway terms. Harriet Tubman, one of the most well known women associ... More> Humor: Teachers by Diane Garner Harriet Tubman crossed my mind the other day.... when i was a little girl, my mother loved to buy my sister and i books from the Scholastic Book Club when our elementary school sent home the order forms... i guess i was in the 5th grade...i saw this... More>
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