Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...

Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...

Mary Liz Stewart, who founded the Underground Railroad center with her husband, Paul, in the 1990s, said the idea for the museum project came when she was looking for quotes by Black Americans for a ...

For the rest of his life, John Lewis bore a scar on his forehead from the police beating he endured during the 1965 civil ...

will share her family stories with hidden messages in the patterns of quilts used on the Underground Railroad. She will present historical information on her family’s history, sharing secret ...

He said the history of the Underground Railroad, or of anything else, doesn’t change because someone banned books from a library or rewrote a web page. The way Keown sees it, that history is as ...

Harriet Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece is "devastated" by the National Park Service's decision to soften its language about the Underground ... book about Tubman's life and founded the Harriet ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad ... African American History and Culture.

The National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground Railroad after ... an attempt to erase history that would help us improve ...

Following public backlash, the National Park Service restored a webpage about the Underground Railroad ... “The next step is to remove from our history books…those things that folks who ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad ... African American History and Culture.