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Akron students tour Gant House and learn the history of the freed slave and entrepreneur
The students first spent the day at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati after receiving the grant from Akron's GAR Foundation. "Then I noticed, not far from there ...
The Washington Post19d
Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
For years, a National Park Service webpage introduced the Underground Railroad with a large photograph of its most famous “conductor,” Harriet Tubman. “The Underground Railroad — the ...
CNN19d
National Park Service removes references to Harriet Tubman from Underground Railroad webpage
A large image of and a quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Park Service webpage about the Underground Railroad, following several prominent changes to government websites ...
CNN17d
After a backlash, National Park Service restores old Underground Railroad webpage that prominently features Harriet Tubman
The National Park Service on Monday returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was ...