NEWS AND EVENTS
Events For April and May 2008
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LEGACY SERIES
The Underground Railroad Legacy Series explores issues of slavery and freedom, and Underground Railroad history. This series of lectures and public conversations seek to preserve and interpret the legacy of courage, determination, and perseverance as exemplified by the enslaved who freed themselves and those who helped others become free.
(Presenter to be announced)
Date: April 19, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Admission: $7.00
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD LEGACY SERIES
The Underground Railroad Legacy Series explores issues of slavery and freedom, and Underground Railroad history. This series of lectures and public conversations seek to preserve and interpret the legacy of courage, determination, and perseverance as exemplified by the enslaved who freed themselves and those who helped others become free.
(Presenter to be announced)
Date: May 3, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Admission: $7.00
Note: The Underground Railroad Legacy Series is presented by the American Women's Heritage Society Underground Railroad Museum at Historic Belmont Mansion in Fairmount Park with generous funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services and other funding sources.
The Underground Railroad Legacy Series explores issues of slavery and freedom, and Underground Railroad history. This series of lectures and public conversations seek to preserve and interpret the legacy of courage, determination, and perseverance as exemplified by the enslaved who freed themselves and those who helped others become free. It preserves the memory and deeds of freedom fighters such as Harriet Tubman, William and Ellen Craft, Henry Box Brown, William Still, Judge Richard Peters and his son Richard Peters, Jr., Frederick Douglass, Lucretia Mott, William Lloyd Garrison and many other people and places too numerous to list here.
For More Info Call: 215-878-8844
www.belmontmansion.org
Belmont Mansion is a partner of the National Park Service Network to Freedom Program; NURFC Freedom Station, and Quest for Freedom.
All Programs will be held at: Belmont Mansion, 2000 Belmont Mansion Drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, PA
