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FreedomCon 2024: Agents of Change, Voices of Freedom

Join us for a full schedule of amazing presentation workshops, to be held the 4th Saturday of every month from January to October, via Zoom, from 2pm-3pm.

NOTE: REGISTRATION for each workshop session closes at 5pm on the Friday before the session.

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FreedomCon 2024: Agents of Change, Voices of Freedom2

Join us for a full schedule of amazing presentation workshops, to be held the 4th Saturday of every month from January to October, via Zoom, from 2pm-3pm.

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Think You Know the Underground Railroad?

Visit The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence for a journey through the real story of the Black Abolitionist movement and celebrate the thousands of unsung, everyday heroes who worked to move our country closer to true democracy.

Interpretive Center Project Description

In order for Underground Railroad Education Center to continue to expand its outreach and share the empowering reinterpretation of underground railroad history and its relevance for us today, UREC needs a facility fully dedicated to programs, events, exhibits, video documentary production and viewing, research, workforce development, children’s engagement, and the arts. This facility would be the Interpretive Center of Underground Railroad Education Center.

Read more about the plans for the Interpretive Center

Upcoming Events

Articles

UREC Story on Channel 6

by Shawn Robinson Channel 6 News Thu, February 22nd 2024 at 6:38 PM ALBANY, NY (WRGB) — The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, first home to African American boat captain…

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YALI Summer 2023 Documentary Trailer

This video showcases some of the work the teens who made up the Creativity in the Arts group during Underground Railroad Education Center’s (UREC) 2023 Young Abolitionist Leadership Institute Summer…

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Interpretive Center Press Conference 06-28-24

Assemblymember Fahy Announces $2 Million Towards Interpretive Center Assemblymember Pat Fahy, in collaboration with Assemblymember John McDonald, announced a $2 million grant towards the creation of Underground Railroad Education Center’s…

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Major Sponsors

Hon. John T. McDonald III

Hon. Patricia Fahy

Lewis Greenstein

Ryan Biggs and Associates

C&S Companies

Carol and Carl Felsen

Steven P. O’Connor

Darius Shahinfar

David Hochfelder

Brenda Twiggs