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The Black Women's Leadership Caucus and the National Park Service Harriet
Tubman Special Resource Study are sponsoring an event, "Celebrating Harriet
Tubman Through History and the Arts" at the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture, 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, Harlem, New York
City, on Sunday, March 21, 2004, 2:00 to 5:00 PM. Participants include Gail
Lumet Buckley, author of American Patriot, Kate Clifford Larson, author of
Bound for the Promised Land, Harriet Tubman, Beverly Lowry, James McGowan,
and Nkeiru Okoye.
For information, contact BWLC, Elizabeth Rankin-Fulcher, 212-560-2542, or
NPS, Leslie Dietrich, 617-223-5433.
The 27th annual Conference on Black History in Pennsylvania, sponsored by
the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, will be held this year
in Indiana, Pennsylvania, with the theme of "Fifty Years after Brown vs. the
Board of Education." In addition to theme related presentations, the
sessions on Saturday will include "African Americans in Indiana County" and
"Pennsylvania and the Network to Freedom." On Saturday afternoon, there
will be a historical marker dedication in Blairsville, commemorating the
rescue of a fugitive slave named Newton in April 1858.
There is a registration fee. For further information on registration, call
724-357-2227. Questions concerning the conference can be directed to the
Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, at
717-783-9871
Christopher Densmore, March 5, 2004
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