Calling all chess players from no experience to beginners to experts. Come play a historical game in a historical house. Boards and chess pieces provided. All are welcome the third…
Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of URHPCR. Please contact Mary…
The pioneering work in the study of the role of Black Americans during Reconstruction by the most influential Black intellectual of his time. This pioneering work was the first full-length…
Do you like digging in the dirt? Researching? Drafting grant applications? Recordkeeping? Planning programs, exhibits, displays? This very active committee needs more volunteers to carry out its important work for URHP and for the community. Be part of the Collections Team! Current hot topics include selecting a gravestone for Stephen and Harriet Myers and planning…
Help bring the July 4th Oration to life by participating in the planning meetings. This annual program is a signature event of Underground Railroad History Project. Using Frederick Douglass’s 1852…
Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of URHPCR. Please contact Mary…
In our increasingly polarized society, the symbol of the 19th century Underground Railroad movement and its abolition activists challenge us to publicly reflect and act upon the legacy of the…
Partnering with Underground Railroad Education Center, acclaimed children’s educators and teaching artists Mariah Ralph and Yahoteh Kokayi of Harlem School of the Arts will lead children and their parents or…
Using the framework of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, ‘What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July”, let us come together to reflect on the meaning of July 4th in…
The Leadership Institute, as a service-learning program, is designed for 20 teens and is conducted across an 80-hour, four-week period that runs through July and August 2020. Small groups of teens work with professionals in Focus Groups learning and applying real world research and analysis and planning skills to a collaboratively agreed upon focus, which…
Due to COVID Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Open House will be recorded and shared publicly following the recording. Please stay tuned for more information.
The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence welcomes you back! 5pm on September 7 is the official reopening to the public beginning. In order to insure everyone's safety, protocols have been put into place. Please visit https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/tours/ for information. We do ask that tickets be purchased online and that you call ahead to schedule your visit…
