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Longwood Gardens has successfully moved the Cox House, a historic home that once served as a stop on the Underground Railroad ...
The Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township will be open to the public on a limited basis starting later this month, according ...
The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emphasize “Black/White Cooperation.” ...
Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...
The U.S. agency appeared to restore text on the history of African Americans escaping slavery, including a photo of famed ...
There’s a marker now in the 400 block of Shadeland Avenue letting people know it is the site of the Riverview House/Cleveland ...
The National Park Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad. For years, the NPS’s page on the ...
The anti-human trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) has a new CEO for the third time in three years.
Thirty years after its founding by a small group of individuals, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is ...
Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...
Columnist: "Some brave settlers in Nebraska City and Falls City helped 'freedom seekers' escape enslavement during the late 1850s and into the Civil War." ...