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March 2016 Volume 11, Number 59 12 March 2016 Volume 11, number 59 UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREE PRESS® Independent reporting on today’s Underground Railroad urrFreePress.com New York City Safehouse to Be an Underground Railroad Museum The following is adapted from an article in the Brooklyn Reader Jan- See our past issues from July and September 2006, uary 14, 2016, issue. Reprinted with January and July 2007, and January 2008 when permission. Free Press covered the battle with the City of New York which gained protection for the Chatel home. In the fall of 2004, on the cusp of gen- Click on Archives at urrfreepress.com. trification’s most recent arrival to New York City's Brooklyn Borough, Joy Chatel—known to many in the community as “Mama Joy”—received In This Issue a pink slip on her door notifying her of the City’s intention to confiscate A new Underground Railroad muse- her property “for the betterment of um honors the memory of the one the community.” who saved the property. 1 To Mama Joy’s surprise and dismay, she, along with several other neigh- bors who lived along Duffield Street Finally: The Harriet Tubman Under- in downtown Brooklyn, suddenly ground Railroad National Monument opens. had become the recipients of a legal 1 action known as eminent domain. 227 Duffield Street, Brooklyn, NY The area where Mama Joy lived in cause his first wife’s family would Albany, New York's Underground downtown Brooklyn was developing speak of it often.” Railroad History Project mounts its fast, and the City had plans to build 15th annual conference. an underground parking lot. And there was other evidence said Lee, such as the Brooklyn Historical 2 The only problem was, like several of Society's old map of the area pointing the homes on the block, Mama Joy’s Flushing, Ohio's Underground Rail- to 226 Duffield Street as an Under- road Foundation begins its 24th year. at 227 Duffield Street had a special ground Railroad stop, and artifacts history: During the 1800s, it was one uncovered in the basement, including 3 of the safe-haven stops for freedom a sealed archway suitable as a hidea- seekers moving through the Under- way and tunnel for runaway slaves. ground Railroad to freedom. Further, Take a Canadian Underground Rail- road tour. the former owners of Mama Joy’s So Mama Joy set out to fight the City. home were believed to be well- Her plan was to get proof of the 3 known and respected abolitionists. home’s abolitionist past, as well as rally public support, and then ulti- Said Shawne Lee, Mama Joy’s daugh- Publicize your event at the Free Press mately convince the City to allow her ter “Her deceased husband, who Datebook. Get listed at Lynx. Submit to turn the location into a museum owned the property with his first an article or letter to the editor. and heritage center. wife, had always told her that there Email us at [email protected]. was a strong possibility that aboli- She met with University of Maryland tionists used to live in the house be- Please go to Mama Joy, page 3, column 2 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument Opens On March 10, 2016, annually observed as Harriet Tubman Day in Over the weekend, sites along the Harriet Tubman Byway Maryland , the National Park Service opened the new Harriet through that part of Maryland and into Delaware were open, Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument on Mary- some sponsoring activities. land's Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake near where Tubman was After years of the United States Congress failing to pass legisla- born and escaped from slavery. tion to create a Tubman National Park, President Obama signed a Exhibits for the Monument's visitor center are being designed and presidential order creating the monument. Many of the country's posters of the exhibit design are in place for visitors to see. That national parks first existed as national monuments before being evening a symposium was held on the new monument and Tub- elevated in status. National parks enjoy stronger environmental man's early life in the area. and historical protection than do national monuments. 12 Underground Railroad Free Press 2 Underground Railroad History Project to Hold 15th Annual Conference in April Conference Signup Organized by Underground Railroad His- 2011 with a degree in political science and undergroundrailroadhistory.org tory Project of the Capital Region, Inc., concentration in international relations. or based in New York State, the 15th annual Her activism was inspired by Marx, An- Underground Railroad Public History gela Davis, the Black Panthers, the poetry Mary Liz Stewart Conference will be held April 15-17, 2016. of Amiri Baraka and radical writers of The conference is co-sponsored by Russell many stripes. “I risk arrest because the [email protected] Sage College in Troy, New York. Drawing pendulum in this country can swing clos- 518.465.8708 a multi-age, diverse audience from er to justice if we acknowledge the con- around the country, this conference pro- nections between our struggles.” vides the opportunity for new researched Saturday is full of workshops, an interac- information to be brought forward, ex- tive cultural performance, vendors, exhib- panding the ever-growing body of the itors, an art exhibit, and reception. Satur- MORE you can do Underground Railroad. day's keynote speaker is Graham Hodges, WITH Free Press The Educators’ Workshop on Friday, PhD, the George Langdon, Jr. Professor of geared toward educators but open to an- History and Africana Studies at Colgate yone interested, will address “Racism in University. He will speak on “The Un- America: Where Do We go From Here?” derground Railroad in Colonial and Rev- Click on links at urrFreePress.com Facilitated by Alan Singer, PhD of Hof- olutionary New York: Redefining the to do any of the following. stra University and colleague April Fran- Passage to Freedom.” He is the author of Subscribe cis, a middle school educator, this prom- many books including the prize-winning View or Add to Datebook ises to be an engaging workshop. Alan David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist Singer is author of numerous books that and The Underground Railroad in New York Send News, Letters, Articles or Ads focus on social studies content instruction City (University of North Carolina Press, Join the Community or View Lynx and slavery in New York. In addition to 2010). He has directed five National En- Make a Free Press Prize Nomination her middle school teaching schedule, co- dowment for the Humanities Summer facilitator April Francis has worked with Seminars for Schoolteachers on Abolition- Rate an Underground Railroad Site numerous teachers from various New ism and the Underground Railroad and List an Underground Railroad Site York universities and has presented an will direct his sixth in 2016. Saturday Read Underground Railroad Surveys array of professional development work- workshop facilitators hail from Califor- shops. She served on the Hofstra Univer- nia, Michigan, Maryland, Rhode Island sity research team with Dr. Alan Singer and New York State. The "In Diversity is that developed the New York State and Richness: the Strength, Faith, and Hope of Slavery: Complicity and Resistance curricu- a People" art exhibit will feature Marcus ® lum guide. Kwame Anderson and Daesha Devón Underground Railroad Free Press Harris. “I believe that the arts can be a Independent Reporting on Barbara Smith and Angelica Clarke are Today’s Underground Railroad powerful vehicle for change and I often the Opening Address speakers. Moving incorporate social commentary into my Peter H. Michael, Publisher Between: Intersectional Identities in the [email protected] work,” says Anderson. Harris writes, “… Struggle for Justice will address how em- 301 | 874 | 0235 with ardent respect for a profound past, I bracing multiple identities deepens effec- challenge the viewer to consider the com- Underground Railroad Free Press is a free newsletter tiveness of political work. Smith is a No- published by Underground Railroad Free Press, 2455 plexity of issues facing communities of bel Peace Prize nominee, author, activist, Ballenger Creek Pike, Adamstown, Maryland, 21710. color.” Back issues are available free at our website. 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