In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad.The Lewelling Quaker ...

The city’s early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New ...

The Underground Railroad was a network of churches, safe houses and community centers that led thousands of people escaping slavery to freedom. Northern states like Pennsylvania played a major ...

Several private homes and churches in Binghamton played a role. The Underground Railroad was a network of churches, safe houses and community centers that led thousands of people escaping slavery ...

The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Last year, on June 14, representatives from the Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State (URCNYS) held a public ...

Some were hired out to work. Some were sold. Ross, too, was a conductor on the Underground Railroad — the secret network of guides and safe houses that rescued thousands of enslaved people from ...

American beauticians who ran businesses that supported civil rights movements during South Florida's racial segregation.

With that, he introduced speaker William Switala, a 52-year borough resident, retired educator and author of three books about the Underground Railroad ... who ran a safe house for travelers ...