The fight to put Harriet Tubman on the face of the $20 bill by 2020 has been revived with the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the House co-sponsored by Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Baltimore. “Too often, our nation does not do ...

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Maryland's historic State House could be the home to statues of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass under a proposal made by the leaders of the General Assembly.

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ANNAPOLIS— A student activist is calling for a statue of Harriet Tubman to be added to the grounds of the Maryland State House. The Washington Post reports that University of Maryland student Colin Byrd thinks his push for the Tubman ...

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(AP) As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on a measure to create national parks honoring abolitionist Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and in upstate New York, one public official wants to set the record straight on where Tubman’s ...

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The U.S. Senate has approved a bill creating two national historical parks, one in Maryland, the other in New York, to honor Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery to become a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, rescuing escaped slaves during the Civil War era.

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CAMBRIDGE — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Maryland’s Eastern Shore to mark the designation of the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument. Salazar spoke Wednesday at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Center in Cambridge, which is part of the new ...

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has designated five new national monuments, using executive authority to protect historic or ecologically significant sites. Vice President Joe Biden and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar joined Obama Monday in the Oval Office as he signed ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin is calling again for the establishment of national parks honoring abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Cardin says he will join with officials from the NAACP, the National Urban League, the National Organization for Women and other groups ...

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WASHINGTON — Descendants of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman have unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom at The President’s Gallery by Madame Tussauds in Washington. Tubman’s great-great-great-grand-nephew Charles E.T. Ross and Tubman’s great-great-grand-niece ...

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Cardin is making another push to create national parks in Maryland and New York dedicated to Harriet Tubman. The Maryland Democrat says he will speak on Wednesday to advocates, historians and Tubman descendants about his efforts ...

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