Harriet Tubman Museum
Her name is synonymous with the Underground Railroad, but most people don't realize that Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on MD's Eastern Shore. Patricia Villone tells us how a new museum aims to educate the public.
Harriet Tubman: A Woman of Courage and Vision
In celebration of the March 2017 grand opening of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor’s Center, we join the National Park Service in presenting a panel discussion examining the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the ongoing preservation of her Maryland birthplace. As a conductor on the Underground Railroad, abolitionist, suffragist, Civil War nurse, spy, commander, and freedom agent, Tubman’s contribution to the causes of universal freedom and equality rank her among the nation’s most significant agents of change.
In the Footsteps of Martin: Walter Black Jr. Looks Back on Civil Rights on the Eastern Shore
As Martin Luther King Day approaches at the same time the country's first African-American president is preparing to leaves office, It's a natural time to reflect on the significant arch of history for civil rights in the United States. And there are very few people in Talbot County that was in a better place to watch that history locally than Walter Black, Jr.
From the age of six, Walter started to realize that there was a racially-divided community when he noticed that white children were being picked up by different school buses than he and his friends. By the time he attended Morgan State in 1960, he had already been active in the NAACP on the Eastern Shore, and from that point forward has dedicated his life to fighting first segregation and later discrimination in Talbot County and the entire state of Maryland as a long-standing president of NAACP's local chapter and a leadership role in coordinating the civil rights organization in Maryland.
In his Spy interview, Walter, who recently turned 80, remembers what it was like to live in a segregated world and also recalls the tensions that existed in Cambridge during the 1967 demonstrations. Walter also talks about the future of race relations as well as the need to keep Martin Luther King's words always in mind that, Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
A Conversation with Washington Leaders
At a recent meeting of its Library Advisory Board, the Duke University Libraries convened a special conversation at the National Archives featuring the heads of some of our country’s leading cultural institutions, including Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, Archivist of the United States David Ferriero, and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie G. Bunch, III. The talk was moderated by noted philanthropist and Duke alumnus David M. Rubenstein T’70.
Harriet Tubman | Wikipedia audio article
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Harriet Tubman
00:02:27 1 Birth and family
00:05:09 2 Childhood
00:06:32 2.1 Religion
00:07:10 2.2 Head injury
00:08:53 3 Family and marriage
00:10:45 4 Escape from slavery
00:14:50 5 Nicknamed Moses
00:21:27 5.1 Journeys and methods
00:26:21 6 John Brown and Harpers Ferry
00:29:01 7 Auburn and Margaret
00:32:00 8 American Civil War
00:34:28 8.1 Scouting and the Combahee River Raid
00:38:31 9 Later life
00:42:28 9.1 Suffragist activism
00:43:49 9.2 AME Zion Church, illness, and death
00:45:53 10 Legacy
00:49:50 10.1 Historiography
00:51:09 10.2 National Historic Site and Person
00:52:08 10.3 National Park designations
00:54:00 10.4 Twenty-dollar bill
00:54:46 11 See also
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- Socrates
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Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved people, family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry. During the Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the United States Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the struggle for women's suffrage.
Born a slave in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate slave owner threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another slave but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. She was a devout Christian and experienced strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God.
In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, then immediately returned to Maryland to rescue her family. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other slaves to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or Moses, as she was called) never lost a passenger. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America, and helped newly freed slaves find work. Tubman met the abolitionist John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for the raid on Harpers Ferry.
When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 slaves. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. After she died in 1913, she became an icon of the courage and freedom of African-Americans.
Black Women Who Changed America, Frisco Museum Lecture Series
The Winter Lecture Series at the Frisco Historic Park and Museum presents Jill Tietjen with her talk on Black Women Who Changed America.
Reprise - Come On Harriet - A Woman Called Harriet - THE MUSICAL - Harriet Tubman
Reprise - Come On Harriet - Going Across That Land - 1993 Archive (NYIDE)
A WOMAN CALLED HARRIET is a musical created by Sean McLeod based on the original 1972 script Harriet Tubman written by the gracious Eula A. Lamphere of Weedsport NY. Eula sought out a team to bring her manuscript to life in a musical. Her search led her to Sean McLeod after becoming familiar with his dramatic play on Harriet Tubman, A Moment in History. Mrs. Lamphere and the team offered Sean the commission and the undertaking of the conversion from play to Musical. As he worked, he could not find a person to write the music, so Sean decided to write the music himself. After completion he enlisted the help of Gospel Director and Conductor Frank Jones to help him orchestrate the music for piano. Sean's music for the musical included the title track Come on Harriet, I Got to Run To Be A Free Man, Going Across That Land, and the song sang by the William Seward's character, Harriet's Lullaby! The musicals' opening number is Sean's interpretation of the Negro National Anthem We Will Overcome, but as he heard it for Harriet Tubman's journey.
The Musical premiered June 24 1993. A WOMAN CALLED HARRIET - A musical tribute chronicling the life and heroism of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her People.
This footage was thought lost in a fire a NYIDE but was found and converted in 2013, the year of Harriet Tubman's centennial.
The original musical was sponsored by the City of Auburn, the Auburn Bicentennial Committee, the Auburn Enlarged School District, Schweinfurth Memorial Arts Center, Fuller Bros, and Cayuga Saving Bank.
Renée Ater: Monuments, Slavery, and the Digital Humanities
Renée Ater discusses the processes and challenges of creating a digital project/publication about the memorialization of slavery. Her project, Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement, investigates how we visualize, interpret, and engage the slave past through contemporary public monuments.
Ater is Associate Professor Emerita of American Art at the University of Maryland. She holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College (1987); a M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland (1993); and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland (2000).
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
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Slave trade | Wikipedia audio article
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The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. However the social, economic, and legal positions of slaves were vastly different in different systems of slavery in different times and places.Slavery appears in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1860 BC), which refers to it as an established institution.Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, because it is developed as a system of social stratification. Slavery was known in the very first civilizations such as Sumer in Mesopotamia which dates back as far as 3500 BC. The Byzantine–Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars in Europe resulted in the taking of large numbers of Christian slaves. Slavery became common within much of Europe during the Dark Ages and it continued into the Middle Ages. The Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, British, Arabs and a number of West African kingdoms played a prominent role in the Atlantic slave trade, especially after 1600. David P. Forsythe wrote: The fact remained that at the beginning of the nineteenth century an estimated three-quarters of all people alive were trapped in bondage against their will either in some form of slavery or serfdom. The Republic of Dubrovnik was the first European country to ban the slave trade in 1416, and in modern times Denmark-Norway in 1802.
Although slavery is no longer legal anywhere in the world (with the exception of penal labour), human trafficking remains an international problem and an estimated 25-40 million people are enslaved today, the majority in Asia. During the 1983–2005 Second Sudanese Civil War people were taken into slavery. Evidence emerged in the late 1990s of systematic child slavery and trafficking on cacao plantations in West Africa; see the chocolate and slavery article. Slavery continues into the 21st-century. Although slavery in Mauritania was criminalized in August 2007, in Mauritania it is estimated that up to 600,000 men, women and children, or 20% of the population, are currently enslaved, many of them used as bonded labor. Slavery in 21st-century Islamism continues, and women and children have been abducted and enslaved (often as sex slaves) by Islamist quasi-states such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Boko Haram.
John Brown (abolitionist) | Wikipedia audio article
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John Brown (abolitionist)
00:02:24 1 Early life
00:07:20 2 Transformative years in Springfield, Massachusetts
00:13:07 3 Homestead in New York
00:13:47 4 Actions in Kansas
00:14:48 4.1 Pottawatomie
00:17:23 4.2 Palmyra and Osawatomie
00:19:53 5 Later years
00:20:02 5.1 Gathering forces
00:27:37 5.2 Raid
00:33:37 5.3 Imprisonment, trial, and six weeks in jail
00:37:29 5.4 Victor Hugo's reaction
00:39:17 6 Death and aftermath
00:40:40 6.1 Transportation of his body
00:41:56 6.2 Senate investigation
00:43:54 6.3 Aftermath of the raid
00:46:04 7 Legacy
00:46:13 7.1 Monuments
00:48:30 7.1.1 Historical markers
00:54:36 7.2 Views of contemporaries
00:55:26 7.3 Views of historians and other writers
00:57:52 7.4 Historiography
01:02:37 7.5 In the arts
01:05:50 8 Influences
01:11:09 9 See also
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- Socrates
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John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist who believed in and advocated armed insurrection as the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States. He first gained attention when he led small groups of volunteers during the Bleeding Kansas crisis of 1856. He was dissatisfied with the pacifism of the organized abolitionist movement: These men are all talk. What we need is action—action! In May 1856, Brown and his supporters killed five supporters of slavery in the Pottawatomie massacre, which responded to the sacking of Lawrence by pro-slavery forces. Brown then commanded anti-slavery forces at the Battle of Black Jack (June 2) and the Battle of Osawatomie (August 30, 1856).
In October 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today West Virginia) to start a liberation movement among the slaves there. He seized the armory, but seven people were killed, and ten or more were injured. He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but the attack failed. Within 36 hours, Brown's men had fled or been killed or captured by local farmers, militiamen, and US Marines led by Robert E. Lee. He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men (including 3 blacks), and inciting a slave insurrection, was found guilty on all counts, and was hanged.
Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid escalated tensions that led to the South's secession a year later and the American Civil War. Brown's raid captured the nation's attention; Southerners feared that it was just the first of many Northern plots to cause a slave rebellion that might endanger their lives, while Republicans dismissed the notion and claimed that they would not interfere with slavery in the South. John Brown's Body was a popular Union marching song that portrayed him as a martyr.
Brown's actions as an abolitionist and the tactics he used still make him a controversial figure today. He is both memorialized as a heroic martyr and visionary, and vilified as a madman and a terrorist. Historian James Loewen surveyed American history textbooks and noted that historians considered Brown perfectly sane until about 1890, but generally portrayed him as insane from about 1890 until 1970 when new interpretations began to gain ground.
2018 Ideas Conference - Full Event
For the past 15 years, the Center for American Progress has served as a creative engine for introducing bold solutions that advance progressive values on nearly every possible front. In the past year alone, we have defended the Affordable Care Act; outlined policies to create workplaces that support women and families; discussed the impact of race across a wide range of issue areas; and helped drive opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax plan.
At CAP, we believe that ideas are the heart of all progressive change, but we also know that ideas aren’t enough. It takes grassroots advocacy and real leadership supporting those ideas to create true progressive change.
As we celebrate our 15th year of big ideas, CAP is bringing together elected officials, policy experts, cultural influencers, and grassroots activists at the 2018 CAP Ideas Conference, where we will explore and unveil new ideas that can make America a place for every single one of us to thrive.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
` SEN. CORY BOOKER | (D-NJ) SEN. SHERROD BROWN | (D-OH) JULIÁN CASTRO | Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development MAYOR BILL DE BLASIO | New York, NY RYAN DEITSCH | Activist and Student, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND | (D-NY) FATIMA GOSS GRAVES | President and CEO, National Women’s Law Center GOV. JAY INSLEE | (D-WA) SEN. DOUG JONES | (D-AL) REP. JOSEPH KENNEDY III | (D-MA) SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR | (D-MN) PAUL KRUGMAN | Economist, Nobel laureate MARIA TERESA KUMAR | President and CEO, Voto Latino REP. TED LIEU | (D-CA) SARAH MCBRIDE | Author and National Press Secretary, Human Rights Campaign SEN. CHRIS MURPHY | (D-CT) GOV. PHIL MURPHY | (D-NJ) DEJUAN PATTERSON | Founding Partner/CEO, The BeMore Group CECILE RICHARDS | President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America SEN. BERNIE SANDERS | (I-VT) REP. TERRI SEWELL | (D-AL) SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN | (D-MA) SALLY YATES | Former acting U.S. Attorney General
History of women in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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This is a piece on history of women in the United States since 1776, and of the Thirteen Colonies before that. The study of women's history has been a major scholarly and popular field, with many scholarly books and articles, museum exhibits, and courses in schools and universities. The roles of women were long ignored in textbooks and popular histories. By the 1960s, women were being presented as successful as male roles. An early feminist approach underscored their victimization and inferior status at the hands of men. In the 21st century writers have emphasized the distinctive strengths displayed inside the community of women, with special concern for minorities among women.
National Museum of African American History and Culture | Wikipedia audio article
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
00:01:16 1 History
00:01:25 1.1 Early efforts
00:09:06 1.2 1990s efforts
00:11:15 1.3 Passage of federal legislation
00:15:12 2 Siting and design competition
00:19:24 2.1 Building design changes
00:23:04 2.2 Construction of the museum building
00:28:55 2.3 Opening
00:35:56 3 Collection and exhibits
00:36:05 3.1 Web presence
00:36:46 3.2 Pre-opening exhibits
00:39:14 3.3 Notable items in the collection
00:40:49 3.3.1 Pre-20th century
00:42:42 3.3.2 20th and 21st centuries
00:48:02 4 Restaurant
00:50:28 5 Reception
00:57:02 6 See also
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a Smithsonian Institution museum established in December 2003. The museum's building, collaboratively designed by Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond, is on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It has close to 37,000 objects in its collection related to such subjects as community, family, the visual and performing arts, religion, civil rights, slavery, and segregation. The museum has about 85,000 square feet of exhibition space with 12 exhibitions, 13 different interactives with 17 stations, and 183 videos housed on five floors.
Early efforts to establish a federally owned museum featuring African-American history and culture can be traced to 1915, although the modern push for such an organization did not begin until the 1970s. After years of little success, a much more serious legislative push began in 1988 that led to authorization of the museum in 2003. A site was selected in 2006. The museum opened September 24, 2016, in a ceremony led by U.S. President Barack Obama.
MLK Legacy Week Keynote Address with Rev. Dr. William Barber, II
W&L's culminating event to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The keynote speaker will be Rev. Dr. William Barber, II. Barber is president and senior lecturer at the nonprofit organization Repairers of the Breach; co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival; bishop with the College of Affirming Bishops and Faith Leaders; visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary; pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina; and the author of three books.
A Conversation on Leadership and Cultural Memory
A Conversation on Leadership and Cultural Memory
Featuring Dr. John W. Franklin, Cultural Historian and Senior Manager, Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture, interviewed by Ayanda Allie Paine, 2018 Fellow from South Africa
Othering & Belonging 2019: Day 2, Tuesday April 9 afternoon
Live Stream Schedule for Othering and Belonging 2019 (
-----Monday, April 8-----
2:00 PM – 2:10 PM
Emcee Opening with Chinaka Hodge
2:10 PM – 2:20 PM
Indigenous Opening with Vincent Medina, Louis Trevino
2:20 PM – 2:30 PM
Haas Institute Welcome with Denise Herd
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
Haben Girma with Disability and Belonging
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Know Respect, with Supaman Christian Takes Gun Parrish
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM
Widening the Playing Field: From Athlete to Activist, with Michael Bennett
4:30 PM – 4:45 PM
Egg Drop Soup with Dawn-Lyen Gardner
4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
Making Belonging: Culturemaker Panel with Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Michael Bennett, Dawn Lyen Gardner, Jeff Chang
-----Tuesday, April 9-----
9:15 AM – 9:30 AM
Building Belonging in a Time of Othering, with john a. powell
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM
Authoritarianism Rising: The Threat to Democracy and Democracy, with Dorian Warren, Miriam Juan-Torres, Michael Tesler
2:00 PM – 2:10 PM
Community Singing, with Melanie DeMore
2:15 PM – 2:45 PM
Belonging in Community with Brett Cook
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Room for all of us: Building inclusive societies., with Rt. Hon. Adrienne Clarkson
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Global Migration: The right to stay, the right to move, and the right to belong, with Adrienne Clarkson, Catherine Tactaquin, Mamadou Goita, Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Partnerships in Belonging, with Alexis McGill Johnson, Jeff Raikes, Phil Thompson
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Will the Future be Feminist? An Inclusive Vision for Belonging with Linda Sarsour, Charlene Sinclair, Saru Jayaramen, Morning Star Gali, Nina Simons
-----Wednesday, April 10-----
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
Aswat Ensemble: A Performance
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Bridging Generations: Intergenerational Movements with Casey Camp-Horinek, Eryn Wise, Thomas Lopez
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM
From Resistance to Renewal: Building An Economy Based on Belonging with Manuel Pastor
2:15 PM – 3:30 PM
The Urgency of Bridging with Desmond Meade, Neil Volz, Ben McBride, Jennifer Martinez
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Closing Keynote with Rev. William Barber II
5:00 PM – 5:10 PM
Closing Song with Melanie DeMore
The Art of Activism: Women Civil Rights Leaders Tell Their Stories
A panel made up of the editors of Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC discusses their book. Feminist historian Debra Schultz moderates. Panelists include: Betty Robinson, editor; Dorothy Zellner, organizer; Faith Holsaert, editor; Judy Richardson, editor; Martha Noonan, editor. This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on November 14, 2010. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
MLK Legacy Week Keynote Address with Rev. Dr. William Barber, II
W&L's culminating event to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The keynote speaker will be Rev. Dr. William Barber, II. Barber is president and senior lecturer at the nonprofit organization Repairers of the Breach; co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival; bishop with the College of Affirming Bishops and Faith Leaders; visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary; pastor of Greenleaf Christian Church, Disciples of Christ in Goldsboro, North Carolina; and the author of three books.