August 4, 2015December 6, 2018 by Julie

Coretta Scott King was an American civil rights activist and the wife of 1960s civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She devoted her life to the highest values of human dignity in service to social change. Coretta was born in Alabama where she graduated valedictorian from Lincoln High School. She then attended Antioch College …

Harriet Tubman

August 4, 2015December 6, 2018 by Julie

Harriet Tubman was a famous ‘conductor’ on the underground railroad leading over 300 of slaves to freedom during the 1850s. Tubman was born a slave in Maryland’s Dorchester County around 1820. She began work at 5/6 as a house servant and seven years later she was forced to work as a field hand. She endured …

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