The Beacon of Hope" is on display at The Woodson African American Museum of Florida in St. Petersburg through June.
In 2000, three years after the Maryland State Highway Administration renamed a stretch of Route 50 for Harriet Tubman, an artist painted her portrait there; in 2008, vandals spray-painted over it.
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.
Harriet Tubman, was an abolitionist and slave who worked relentlessly to free enslaved African Americans. Tubman was born ...
“Harriet Tubman should be revered always for risking ... plans to unveil a 14-foot bronze statue, created by a Black artist, ...