Black History Month, Mountain View Lodge #244, Sinéad and Ria Toolis
This month our lodge windows celebrated Black History Month with a special emphasis on an extraordinary person, Harriet Tubman.
Who Was Harriet Tubman?
As you know, Harriet Tubman was a person who was enslaved but managed to escape using a system called the Underground Railroad. Harriet, often called Moses, was responsible for leading many enslaved people to freedom before the American Civil War in 1861.
She was also a nurse, a civil rights activist, a Union spy and a supporter of women’s suffrage.
In 2015, a group called ‘Women on Twenties’ held an online poll in the US asking which female figure should be on the $20 note. The list of 15 women included Eleanor Roosevelt and Rosa Parks. Harriet Tubman won by more than 600, 000 votes!
From Ria, as an immigrant, I first heard of Harriet Tubman when my son was in 4th grade and he had make a presentation about an American he most admired, he chose Harriet Tubman and since then I have been interested in her life.
For more information on this exceptional woman please check out –
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/harriet-tubman
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/harriet-tubman
https://www.nps.gov/people/harriet-tubman.htm
— by Sinéad and Ria Toolis
