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Delaware County Recognizes September as International Underground Railroad Month

Delaware County Recognizes September as International Underground Railroad Month
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A report says these Black SC leaders should have USC buildings renamed for them

A report says these Black SC leaders should have USC buildings renamed for them
Lucas Daprile and Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Jul. 14 If the University of South Carolina moves forward with renaming several buildings on its campus whose namesakes are being re-examined with the passage of time, several prominent African Americans could be set to grace university buildings instead.
The university history subcommittee of the commission examining building names agreed this week on 14 names of African Americans who could have buildings named after them if names are changed, according to a preliminary report. Those are:
Robert G. Anderson ....

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'Their stories need to be told': the true story behind The Underground Railroad | US television

Jones notes that the first thing people tend to get wrong about the underground railroad is assuming that a series of subterranean trains, tunnels and platforms branched out like the London Underground or New York subway. It was, in fact, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by thousands of enslaved people to flee from the south to free states and Canada in the early to mid-19th century.
âWhen people hear ârailroadâ, they automatically think it was a train,â Jones adds. âThe underground railroad was just a metaphor for a movement of people to be able to organise a network of abolitionists and freedom seekers.â ....

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'Their stories need to be told': the true story behind The Underground Railroad

‘Their stories need to be told’: the true story behind The Underground Railroad
David Smith in Washington
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Don’t be fooled by the train carriage. The Washington Waterfront Underground Railroad Museum might be housed inside one but its content has nothing to do with railways. Its true genesis lies across the street in the Pamlico River, once used as an avenue of escape by enslaved African Americans seeking freedom.
Leesa Jones, cofounder and executive director of the museum, says: “We realised through reading copious documents and old slave ads from Washington newspapers that would say things like, ‘My slave has escaped, they’re going to try to get to Washington to board a ship to get to their freedom’, that we wanted to tell an accurate story of how freedom seekers left from the Washington waterfront.” ....

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Celebrate Black History Month: Download a coloring page featuring extraordinary Black individuals from Lancaster

MADELINE ANDERSON
Madeline Anderson is a filmmaker who made âIntegration Report 1,â the first documentary ever made by a Black woman. Now in her 90s, Anderson grew up in Lancaster and attended J.P. McCaskey High School.
WILLIAM PARKER
William Parker escaped slavery as a young man and settled in Christiana, where he used his home as a safehouse on the Underground Railroad. He helped protect freed men and women from being kidnapped. He died in 1891 at age 69 or 70.
BARNEY EWELL
Henry Norwood âBarneyâ Ewell, a J.P. McCaskey grad, was a track and field athlete. Among his many accomplishments as a runner, he won one gold and two silver medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics. His high school honored him with a stadium in his name, and the site formerly known as Lancaster Square on Queen Street in Lancaster city has been renamed Barney Ewell Plaza. Ewell died in 1996 at age 78. ....

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