Word: tubman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groups supported the rally: A.V.C., E. V. Debs Society, Harriet Tubman Society, Independent Socialist Club, Progressive Coalition Party, People's Songs, Philosophy Club, Hillel, Psychology Club, and the Young Progressives...
Married. William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 52, dapper, coal-black President of the Liberian Republic; and Antoinette Padmore, thirtyish, granddaughter of Liberian ex-President Arthur Barclay and cousin of Tubman's predecessor, Edwin Barclay; he for the third time, she for the first; in Monrovia, Liberia...
...have slipped a cog in its story (TIME, Aug. 4) on Liberia's 100th anniversary. You tell us that Liberia was founded by the American Colonization Society "as a home for freed slaves from the U.S."; and you tell us that Liberia's current President is named Tubman; but you never tie these two facts together. If you did, you might find they had an exceedingly interesting background...
...human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
That to me is a pretty fascinating story. And why, 100 years later, has the President of Liberia the same name? Is President Tubman a descendant? Or did one of the freed Negroes who went to Liberia take the name of a woman who must have been to them something of a saint? Whatever it is, TIME should supply this missing link...