Confederate site rededicated to Tubman (MD)
By JAMIE SCHARF and VANCE WOOD | February 15, 2018
... A portion of Wyman Park Dell .. will be named after Tubman .. a Maryland-born slave and conductor of the Underground Railroad. In August 2017, the City removed four Confederate monuments ...
... City Councilwoman Mary Pat Clarke .. said that the site will be rededicated as the “Harriet Tubman Grove” ...
"Just as Harriet Tubman led hundreds from slavery and hundreds of Union soldiers during the Civil War, she is now helping lead Baltimore’s reclamation of our four former confederate sites, as a place of community gathering and peaceful contemplation" ...
The original Lee-Jackson Monument was erected in 1948. It was originally built to portray the men as "Christian soldiers" ...
http://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2018/02/confederate-site-rededicated-to-harriet-tubman
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