Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.

The latest measure, sponsored by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, follows years of delays and efforts to have Harriet Tubman replace President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

An Underground Railroad conductor himself, Ben Ross relied on his daughter for his own family’s escape. Tubman escaped in ...

Harriet Tubman led the secret operation ... statue and commemorated Tubman’s heroic raid with song, prayer, and speeches ...

12 (UPI) --Harriet Tubman, a former slave and revered abolitionist ... the one to go in and work to change it." Following Moore's speech, the official order appointing Tubman to the rank of ...

Born 200 years ago in Maryland, Harriet Tubman was a conductor of the Underground Railroad, a Civil War scout, nurse and spy, and one of the greatest freedom fighters in our nation’s history.

Edda Fields-Black will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Dr. Maurice C. Taylor ’72 Lecture on Social Justice at 6:30 ...