Claudette Colvin
Claudette gave all of us moral courage. If she had not done what she did, I am not sure that we would have been able to mount the support for Mrs. Parks. –Fred Gray, Alabama civil rights attorney When...
View ArticlePaul and Mary Liz Stewart on WebTalkRadio.net about Underground Railroad
The Stewarts discuss their annual Underground Railroad conference that is being held this year at Russell Sage College in Troy, April 13-15.
View ArticleSusan Holland talks about the Underground Railroad residence
Susan Holland, Executive Director of Historic Albany Foundation, talks about the Underground Railroad and the Stephen and Harriet Myers building and its restoration and its importance to Albany, NY and...
View ArticleUK archeological group to dig at Underground Railroad house
The Digventure folks had come to the area to visit the Darrow School in New Lebanon, NY to check out the nationally historic Shaker artifacts.
View ArticleWhat to the Slave is the 4th of July?
Guest speaker: Deidre Butler, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies, Union College
View ArticlePromoting Underground Railroad history: the Stewarts are biking along the...
Admit it: when you read "from Albany to Buffalo," you thought of the song.
View Article50th anniversary of SELMA: see the movie January 6, support the Underground...
Join with other supporters of the Underground Railroad History Project for the benefit Special Advance Screening of SELMA, scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2015.
View ArticleThe Underground Railroad and American Identities: call for conference proposals
Underground Railroad conference proposals SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY OCTOBER 30, 2015.
View Article#Giving Tuesday extended for Underground Railroad group
Make your donation to the Underground Railroad History Project and have it matched dollar for dollar through December 24.
View ArticleSchuyler Flatts: reburying enslaved people in Albany County, NY
Back on June 5th, 2005, the remains of more than a dozen 18th Century African slaves were found buried at the former Capital Region estate of the Schuyler Family, which was known as Schuyler Flatts....
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