John Brown was a man of action -- a man who ... He also participated in the Underground Railroad and, in 1851, helped establish the League of Gileadites, an organization that worked to protect ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.

The building that houses the John Brown Russwurm African American Center was originally ... The rumors concerning the house as an Underground Railroad Station in the middle of the 19th century are not ...

The inductees include a husband-and-wife team who helped thousands escape slavery on the Underground Railroad ... Smith, and John Brown, and was chosen to preside over its national convention ...

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center ... Sojourner Truth, John Rankin, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Box Brown, Margaret Garner and the millions whose names have long been forgotten.

In biographies and children’s books, she towers as the heroine of the Underground Railroad ... She did not accompany her ...

Soule was raised to do good. His family helped found Lawrence, Kansas, was an active part of the Underground Railroad, and worked with famed abolitionist John Brown. In fact, following Brown’s raid on ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

According to unofficial preliminary results, the Associated Press has projected that Republican Derek Brown will replace ...

Based on the August Wilson play about the complex weight of Black lineage, Malcolm Washington's feature-length directorial ...

• Thursdays at the Museum: 1 p.m. Thursdays, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, self-guided visit of our collections for ...