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Author Events and Updates on the Harriet Tubman National
Historical Park and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park Act:
As a result of the nearly
decade-long efforts on the part of the National Park Service to complete its Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study, legislation
has recently been introduced into Congress to create The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park to honor Harriet Tubman,
the formerly enslaved Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War hero, community and civil rights advocate. The establishment
of this national park would recognize, preserve and interpret for Americans, and others from around the world, the nationally
significant places of Tubman's birth, enslavement, and Underground Railroad activity on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and
the home she created in freedom in Auburn, N.Y., where she spent the last 50 years of her activist life.
For more information
on the National Park Service's Harriet Tubman Special Resource Study, please go to www.harriettubmanstudy.com
To read
about the legislation (Senate bill S. 227 and House bill H. 1078), please go to http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/thomas
Author
events:
Check C-SPAN BOOK-TV for upcoming broadcasts of KATE CLIFFFORD LARSON talking about HARRIET TUBMAN's life,
and the research and writing of BOUND FOR THE PROMISED LAND: HARRIET TUBMAN, PORTRAIT OF AN AMERICAN HERO. Filmed on February
8, 2005, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Please check back for the latest author lectures and book signings.
Other
Harriet Tubman Events
If you have a conference or related event planned and would like it listed on this site,
just let us know and we will try to post it. Thank you.
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