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Showing posts with label Harriet Tubman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harriet Tubman. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Maryland Governor Wes Moore Posthumously Commissions Harriet Tubman as Brigadier General in Maryland National Guard

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Maryland Governor Wes Moore joined Maryland National Guard Maj. Gen. Janeen L. Birckhead, House Speaker Adrienne A. Jones, and Del. Edith ...
Sunday, May 26, 2024

Must Read Book: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid

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Check out this exciting and interesting book about Harriet Tubman. The book is titled COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, a...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

U.S. MINT RELEASES COMMEMORATIVE HARRIET TUBMAN COINS

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The 2024 Harriet Tubman Commemorative Coin Program celebrates the bicentennial of Harriet Tubman’s birth. Public Law 117-163, the Harriet ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Harriet Tubman: Visions of Freedom and Becoming Frederick Douglass premiering in October on PBS

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Two original documentaries that shed new light on the lives of a pair of towering figures in the struggle to end slavery – Harriet Tubman...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Harriet Tubman movie coming November 1, 2019

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Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, HARRIET tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tub...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Congresswoman Beatty Leads Congressional Effort to Put Harriet Tubman on the New Twenty

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U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) hosted a press conference to condemn Treasury Secretary Mnuchin’s senseless decision to indefi...
Thursday, May 23, 2019

Harriet Tubman's $20 bill to be delayed until after Trump leaves office

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Wednesday the redesign of the $20 bill to feature 19th century abolitionist leader Harriet Tubm...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Previously Unknown Photo of Young Harriet Tubman To Go on Public View for the First Time

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will display—for the first time—the Emily Howland photography ...
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Trump Treasury won't commit to putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

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The Trump administration hasn't commited to an Obama-era pledge to put abolitionist and civil rights hero Harriet Tubman on the $20 ...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Baltimore park space where Confederate statue once stood rededicated to Harriet Tubman

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More than 200 local residents and elected leaders gathered in a tree-lined corner of a Baltimore park Saturday to rededicate the space, ...
Friday, September 01, 2017

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin dismisses question about putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday declined to say whether the Trump administration would continue with a plan to depict Harr...
Sunday, April 02, 2017

Library of Congress, Smithsonian buy newly discovered photo of Harriet Tubman

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An old photo album containing a rare portrait of the legendary underground railroad conductor Harriet Tubman has been jointly acquired b...
Monday, December 05, 2016

Legislators propose Tubman and Douglass statues outside Maryland State House

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A proposal to place statues of anti-slavery heroes Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass in the Maryland State House would add a new cha...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Republican congressman trying to block Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill

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A Republican congressman is trying to block the Treasury from redesigning U.S. currency, a move that could prevent the government from r...
Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Ben Carson doesn't think Harriet Tubman should be on the $20 bill

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Today Treasury Secretary Jack Lew made the announcement announced that Harriet Tubman will be replacing on the front of the $20 inste...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

Viola Davis to portray Viola Davis in HBO movie

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HBO Films has teamed with writer Kirk Ellis, producer Doug Ellin and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV for a project about Harriet Tubman, wi...