Harriet Tubman: Celebrated freedom fighter and now general
Now, many years after her death, Tubman is officially a one-star brigadier general, according to The Associated Press.
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Harriet Tubman honored as general for plantation raids in SC Lowcountry
In all, more than 750 enslaved Africans were liberated in the raids. Tubman became the only African American woman to ...
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Harriet Tubman honored for her military service on Veterans Day nearly 160 years later
“With courage and selflessness, Harriet Tubman nobly advanced the survival of the Union and the proposition that all people are created equal.” The decision won unanimous support from both ...
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Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
(AP) — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to ... not just a great day for Tubman’s home state but for all of the U.S. “Today, we celebrate a soldier and a person ...
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Harriet Tubman named a general in Veterans Day ceremony
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee ... not just a great day for Tubman’s home state but for all of the U.S. “Today, we celebrate a soldier and a person ...