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Harriet Tubman's Birthday
The League of Women Voters honors Harriet Tubman on her birthday, March 10.
In addition to the danger she faced freeing hundreds of slaves, she was also active in the women's suffrage movement in her later years.
Tubman traveled to speak in favor of women's voting rights. She described her actions during and after the Civil War, and used the sacrifices of countless women throughout modern history as evidence of women's equality to men. When the National Federation of Afro-American Women was founded in 1896, Tubman was the keynote speaker at its first meeting.
From a proclamation in the State of Maryland:
Whereas Harriet Ross Tubman was born into slavery in Bucktown, Maryland, in or around the year 1820;
Whereas she escaped slavery in 1849 and became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad;
Whereas she undertook a reported nineteen trips as a conductor, endeavoring despite great hardship and great danger to lead hundreds of slaves to freedom;
Whereas Harriet Tubman became an eloquent and effective speaker on behalf of the movement to abolish slavery;
Whereas she served in the Civil War as a soldier, spy, nurse, scout, and cook, and as a leader in working with newly freed slaves;
Whereas after the War, she continued to fight for human dignity, human rights, opportunity, and justice"
The fight continues for human dignity, human rights, opportunity, and justice and we must continue to answer the call.
- Maryland's Governor's Office of Community Initiatives
Read more about her remarkable life in her Wikipedia
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