Word: tubman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Participants in the march will gather at the Harriet Tubman House on the corner of Columbus and Mass. Ave., at 2 p.m. today. State Rep. Melvin H. King, the leader of the walk, refused to outline the route of the walk...
Susan B. Anthony, the celebrated suffragist (1820-1906), is the front runner, but Amelia Earhart is closing fast, well ahead of Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Tubman, Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Fanny Farmer, Grandma Moses, Martha Mitchell, Sara Lee, Anita Bryant, Shirley Temple and Whistler's Mother. All are candidates in a campaign to put a woman's face on a dollar coin that the Government plans to issue, probably in mid-1979. Since word became known of the plan, the Treasury has been receiving 700 to 800 nominations...
...Marcy Heidish's fictionalized narrative, the heroine recounts her role as hope to the "bondfolk" of the South, terror to plantation owners (the reward for her capture rose to $40,000) and major figure in the abolition and women's suffrage movements. Harriet Tubman, a short, muscular woman, was born into slavery around 1820 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. At 15, she suffered a severe head injury when an overseer threw an iron weight at her. The blow left Harriet with permanent brain damage; for the remainder of her life, she would suffer periods of unconsciousness...
...suffered no such lapses of responsibility. After fleeing to free territory, she organized 19 forays into the South, bringing out 300 men, women and children. But she continued to worry about the unreachable. In Heidish's stream of conscience, Tubman murmurs: "I began to dream continually on numbers . . . Three million the abolitionists said there were; that figure loomed large in my brain, nearly blotting the others out. I was unable to picture what a million or two or three million looked like, so I dreamed instead of fingers, counting them, fingers spread, pointing, webbing together, locking at the knuckles...
...this evocative first novel, the rescuer emerges as an invincibly courageous woman, guided by a deep, mystical religious faith and a tenacious vision. Harriet Tubman used her great intelligence in the service of a passionate love for her people. She was, to the end of her days, illiterate. But she did more than read or write a book. She inspired one-and millions of followers, down to the present...