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USES Celebrates Harriet Tubman Day

Student enjoys coloring in our Early Childhood Education class.
Students complete coloring sheets for Harriet Tubman Day.

Each year, USES recognizes Harriet Tubman Day (March 10th) to honor and remember Harriet’s bravery and heroics. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 enslaved people to freedom. Although Harriet Tubman never lived in Boston, she had connections to the city through other abolitionist friends. One friend eventually opened the “Harriet Tubman House” in Tubman’s honor within the South End of Boston. The Harriet Tubman House was created to provide young Black women a safe haven as they made their way to Boston from the South. This house eventually became part of the merge of five different houses to create one large space of community resources and connections known as United South End Settlements (USES).

At USES, we are proud to offer all classrooms a chance to discuss and learn about Harriet's bravery each year. Though this year’s Harriet Tubman Day fell on a Sunday, all classrooms at USES completed a range of activities on Friday, March 8th, to learn about and remember Harriet. Our Early Childhood Education classrooms read her biography together, completed coloring sheets, and talked about the North Star that Harriet followed to guide her north towards freedom. Our club48 classrooms also read about Harriet, completed word searches, and watched “The Breathtaking Courage of Harriet Tubman” and “Who is Harriet Tubman?” Her legacy and impact remains to be an important one to reflect on and remember.

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