How did the Underground Railroad challenge the legal and social norms that upheld racial segregation and discrimination?

A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south. There are still several historical sites in Detroit where you can literally stand in the spaces where escaped slaves persevered to reach freedom. A week-long NEH “Landmarks of American History and Culture” workshop that will give you new insights into the compelling story of the Underground Railroad. The work, which overlooks the Detroit River, includes a ten-by-twelve-foot sculptural group: eight escaping slaves and an Underground Railroad Conductor. The Museum and the Heritage Center are managed by the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association. Poignant exhibits portray compelling stories of ... An award winning Greek Revival Underground Railroad site recalling the anti-slavery activism of Stephen and Harriet Myers and their colleagues, the meetings ... Rich in oral histories, maps, memoirs, and archaeological investigations, this examination of the "geography of resistance" tells the new, powerful, and ... Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force ... The mission of the Underground Railroad Task Force is to develop a statewide plan to connect existing local projects ... Take a virtual tour of the Underground Railroad in Michigan - also known as the "Freedom Trail" - with this interactive map. Pressly's research explores how and why the Southeast, especially the Georgia coast, provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that ...