Study rooms dedicated for couple who escaped slavery
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Library honoring Georgians who worked to build a better future for students
In 1848, William and Ellen Craft fled Georgia in disguise and for 19 years, left the country to escape slavery and become activists for freedom, literacy and education for Black Americans before and after the Civil War.
Nearly 175 years later, their names will be permanently etched at the heart of the birthplace of public higher education in the United States, with two study rooms in the Main Library of the University of Georgia dedicated in the couple’s honor. Along with the naming of two adjoining study rooms for Mary Blount Bowen Green, a little-known white schoolteacher from the same community, the markers will celebrate Georgians who worked to build a better future for the students of today.