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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman, (born c. 1820, Dorchester county, Maryland, U.S.—died March 10, 1913, Auburn, New York), American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led dozens of enslaved people to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad—an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose.

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Mr. Rogers

Fred Rogers Took a Stand Against Racial Inequality When He Invited a Black Character to Join Him in a Pool

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Martin Luther King Jr

Harriet Glickman

Following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Glickman wrote a letter to Charles M. Schulz on the subject of racially integrating Peanuts. The exchange between them resulted in the introduction of Franklin into the Peanuts strip in 1968. Harriet Glickman was a white, 42-year-old suburban Los Angeles school teacher and mother raising three children when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. Glickman was so angry and outraged she asked herself what she could do personally