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Recommended Reading
The museum’s History Committee has assembled a list of superb resources on the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Check back often as we will be expanding this list!
[From Sept. 2022 article in PA Historic Preservation.] September is International Underground Railroad Month, which was chosen because it is the month that two of the most well-known people associated with the Underground Railroad – Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass – escaped from slavery. This post was written by Dr. Leroy Hopkins, a Board member of the UGRR Museum of PA, and he provides a glimpse into the Underground Railroad in Columbia, PA. At the height of the pandemic, a group of scholars and public historians met via Zoom to discuss what would become a successful application to Governor Wolf to proclaim September as International Underground Railroad Month. Samuel W. Black of the Heinz History Center coordinated this effort under the auspices of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, similar to states across the country. In June of this year the PA Legislature also officially designated September as UGRR Month. [ For COMPLETE ARTICLE CLICK ON MAP.]
