68."When I was newly engaged, I introduced my then-fiancé to my mother. Well, of course, the subject of his family came up, ...

Recently, Congressman Brandon Gill (R-TX) introduced a piece of legislation to replace Benjamin Franklin’s name and likeness ... would place Harriet Tubman on a new design planned to be released ...

She later adopted her mother’s first name, Harriet. When she was around ... 2020 deadline for completing the design of a $20 bill featuring Harriett Tubman could have been met.

Harriet Tubman, in a photograph dating from 1860-1875 ... How the Underground Railroad got its name NPR’s Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground ...

“Harriet Tubman is like a stage name for me,” she said. “That’s not who she was to herself or to her family here. In Auburn, she was Mrs. Davis. The public has no clue about who she really ...

Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869. Every American seems to know the name and even story of Harriet Tubman. But do they? In spite of her stature and importance in American history, she seemed to have ...

Harriet was not her birth name. Historical accounts suggest that Tubman was born between 1820 and 1821 into slavery in Eastern Maryland. The then-named “Araminta Ross” was the daughter of Ben ...

She took his name and changed her first name to Harriet. In 1849, Tubman heard she and her two ... The $5 gold coin has an obverse design of Tubman in her years following the Civil War, looking into ...

Names will be withheld to protect ... Larry’s neighbor Dwayne Tubman (Jones) is a relative of civil rights icon Harriet Tubman, which is a fact that Larry holds on to after the lemon tree ...

Sofia, whose last name was withheld from news reports at ... said in a statement he’s proud the next generation of Americans will see a design featuring an abolitionist and Maryland native. “Harriet ...

The silver dollar design portrays Tubman's time as a "conductor" on the Underground ... She later married John Tubman, a free Black man, around 1844 and changed her name from Araminta to Harriet. She ...