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Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known collectively as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her la…
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culture · African-American abolitionist (1822–1913) · writer · nurse · human rights defender · abolitionist · political activist · spy · suffragist · feminist · freedom fighter · also Harriet Tubman, Harriet Tubman Davis, Araminta Ross Broadus, Minty Ross, Araminta Ross, Araminta Harriet Ross
Born 1821 · Died 10 March 1913 · Q102870
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2026· 24 entries
KPTV: Epicenter Week Community Impact Day held at Harriet Tubman Middle School
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Richmond Times-Dispatch: Trump administration puts plan for Harriet Tubman $20 bill on ice - Richmond Times-Dispatch
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The Daily Tar Heel: MLK’s jail cellmate and a Harriet Tubman actress remember the past through stories
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MS NOW: Harriet Tubman’s $20 bill delayed by Trump Administration
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KATU: Portland middle school’s double-digit gains: What Harriet Tubman is doing differently
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WMDT: Harriet Tubman Museum Shares Update Following Break-In
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Finger Lakes Daily News: Mannion Urges Treasury to Resume Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Redesign
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Quiver Quantitative: Press Release: Mannion Urges Treasury to Resume Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Effort
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Eagle News Online: Mannion calls for Harriet Tubman to be put on the $20 bill
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WSTM: Harriet Tubman Byway needs three missing CNY communities
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Press of Atlantic City: Trump administration puts plan for Harriet Tubman $20 bill on ice
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auburnpub.com: Harriet Tubman byway makes pitch to win Cayuga County town's support
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Harriet Tubman
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: How Harriet Tubman Became a Conductor on the Underground Railroad
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auburnpub.com: Mannion backs putting Harriet Tubman on $20 bill after Trump administration dumps plan
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The Tennessee Tribune: Trump Admin Halts Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Redesign
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auburnpub.com: Ventris Gibson, new Harriet Tubman Home director, introduced at Auburn council meeting
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Yahoo: Here's What Harriet Got Wrong About Harriet Tubman's Life
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auburnpub.com: Why Harriet Tubman byway is holding a 'community conversation' in Aurelius
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The News Journal: Summer offers a deep dive into Harriet Tubman's story
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TheTrucker.com: TAT’s Harriet Tubman Award winner Arian Taylor: ‘Freedom is a privilege that every human being should have’
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Public attention spiked: 7,945 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.2× the usual 2,493, with 0 article edits.
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Forbes: Treasury Department Ditches Obama-Era Plans For Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill
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2025· 2 entries
Artnet: Harriet Tubman’s Daring Military Raid Comes to Life Through Art
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A National Park Service web page on the Underground Railroad was temporarily edited to remove references to abolitionist and former slave Harriet Tubman, with the exception of an image of a stamp with her face on it, alongside Black and white abolitionists.” True.
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2024· 3 entries
Tubman was posthumously commissioned as a one-star general (brigadier general) in the Maryland Army National Guard in recognition of her military service during the Civil War
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New York Post: Celebrated abolitionist and activist Harriet Tubman’s secret history as a spy
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The United States Mint issued three Harriet Tubman commemorative coins; each coin depicts her at a different stage of her life
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2022· 1 entry
AP News rated the claim “A photo shows Harriet Tubman holding a rifle.” False.
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2021· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “When Harriet Tubman was born, Thomas Jefferson was alive. When she died, Ronald Reagan was alive.” True.
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2020· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Kanye West said, "Harriet Tubman never actually freed the slaves."” Correct Attribution.
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2019· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In the mid-1990s, a film studio executive proposed casting Julia Roberts as the abolitionist former slave Harriet Tubman.” Unproven.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says a photograph of Harriet Tubman shows she was a "gun-toting, Democrat-shooting, 2nd Amendment-supporting Republican."” False.
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2018· 1 entry
AP News rated the claim “Harriet Tubman said” False.
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2016· 6 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump said that Harriet Tubman's face belongs on food stamps, not the $20 bill.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph depicts a glamorous "young Harriet Tubman."” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph captures Harriet Tubman as a "Gun-Toting, Democrat-Shooting" Republican.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Sixty Klan members committed suicide after it was announced that Harriet Tubman's image would be placed on the $20 bill.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Harriet Tubman said: "I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."” False.
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There were plans to add a portrait of Tubman to the front of the twenty-dollar bill, moving the portrait of President Andrew Jackson, a slaveholder, to the back of the bill
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2008).
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Maryland Women's Hall of Fame (1985).
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1978· 1 entry
Tubman became the first African-American woman honored on a U
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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1944· 1 entry
The United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship named for a black woman
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1913· 3 entries
Died 1913-03-10.
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“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the way.”
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“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
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1901· 1 entry
Added an appendix with more stories about Tubman's life
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1896· 1 entry
Tubman bid $1,215 (equivalent to $47,000 in 2025) at auction for a 25-acre (10 ha) farm adjacent to the one she already owned, to use for the new facility
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1895· 2 entries
Tubman was granted a monthly widow's pension of $8 (equivalent to $310 in 2025), plus a lump sum of $500 to cover the five-year delay in approval
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Began discussions with AME Zion leaders and others to create a Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged that would care for "indigent colored people"
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1886· 1 entry
At Tubman's request, Bradford released a re-written volume called Harriet, the Moses of her People
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1869· 2 entries
Were married at the Central Presbyterian Church
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And brought Tubman some $1,200 in income (equivalent to $29,000 in 2025)
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1867· 1 entry
In support of Tubman's claim for a military pension, an abolitionist named Sallie Holley wrote that $40,000 "was not too great a reward for Maryland slaveholders to offer for her"
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1866· 1 entry
“We Are All Bound Up Together”
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1861· 1 entry
Tubman had a vision that the war would lead to the abolition of slavery
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1859· 1 entry
In Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents
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1858· 2 entries
Brown held a meeting in Chatham, Canada, where he unveiled his plan for a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
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And helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry
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1857· 1 entry
Tubman received word that her father was at risk of arrest for harboring a group of eight people escaping slavery
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1855· 1 entry
But even when they were both free, the area was hostile
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1849· 2 entries
Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, only to return to Maryland to rescue her family soon after
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Tubman became ill again, which diminished her value to slave traders
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1821· 1 entry
Born 1821.
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