Riverside

The National Park Service will hold their Annual Underground Railroad Network to Freedom meeting in the Inland Empire from March 29- April 2, 2004. They will tour various local sites, visit schools in both Riverside and San Bernardino and visit Redlands, and Perris.

The Black Women’s Forum will present “The Underground Railroad Theater and Movable Feast” on Saturday, June 21, from 6:30 p.m to 10:00 p.m. beginning at the Unuversalist Unitarian Church. The cross-town journey will re-create stops on the Underground Railroad that secreted so many freedom seekers on their journey to freedom.

Philadelphia

The William Still Underground Railroad Foundation Inc. along with the National Park Service, Camden Waterfront, Loews Hotel of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Multi-Culture Congress announced the first annual National Underground Railroad Family Reunion festival to take place in Camden, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 27-29, 2003. The three-day celebration, a first of its kind, will reunite descendants of conductors, abolitionists, stationmasters, freedom seekers, and all of those persons whose ancestors were associated with the underground railroad in a public area.

Part XI
By Cheryl Brown
Photos by Jon Gaede

Our final stop and the departure of our travels on the 5th Annual Footsteps To Freedom Study Tour was in Columbus, Ohio, an area rich in Underground Railroad activity.