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...second instalment portrayed Harriet Tubman, the tiny but herculean conductor of the Underground Railroad, who never lost a passenger. Included was her gunboat raid into Confederate territory, making her, according to an official dispatch, "the only woman in American military history ever to plan and conduct an armed expedition against enemy forces...
...line to spend $52,000 for 60 seconds of air time, he is not about to change anything. He says that he has learned to control his celebrated temper and swears that he no longer dashes off such angry letters to critics as the one he sent to Harriet Van Home when she was TV colum nist for the N.Y. World-Telegram: "Dear Miss Van Home: You bitch. Sincerely, Ed Sullivan...
...were the rule, and most headlines reported the bridegroom's race. But editorials on the subject were scarce, although the Richmond News Leader called mixed marriages "eccentric" and said that "anything that diminishes his [Rusk's] personal acceptability is an affair of state." New York Post Columnist Harriet Van Home was sympathetic, commenting that "the intimate joys and sorrows of public figures must inevitably become the common gossip of the marketplace...
...Harriet Monroe's Poetry magazine published "Chicago," and Sandburg was recognized...
...quilt depicts Harriet Tubman (1820-1913), the escaped slave who became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and earned the title of "the Moses of her people." It is not so well known that she was also one of the more than 400,000 Negroes who took part one way or another in the Civil War. Commanding some 300 Union troops, she in 1863 led a highly successful and much-imitated foray into Confederate territory, freeing almost 800 slaves, driving the enemy inland, and inflicting losses estimated in the millions. An official dispatch at the time stated...