White Plains Public Library: Harriet Tubman Reading & Resources

White Plains NY

08 March, 2022

6:24 AM

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Press release from the White Plains Public Library: March 7, 2022 From April 1st through June 30th, the Harriet Tubman – Journey to Freedom sculpture by Wesley Wofford will be on display in Renaissance Plaza in downtown White Plains. In conjunction with the historic visit by the sculpture, the Library and many other community partners are organizing events related to Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad, and more. You can find all of the Library's related programs and events here, with a full listing of the community-wide programs and events here. To learn more about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, check out some of the materials below from the Library! YOUTH FILM Follow the Drinking Gourd Library Catalog The Harriet Tubman Story hoopla The Journey of Henry "Box" Brown Kanopy Kids NONFICTION The Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities by Mary Kay Carson Library Catalog / hoopla Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla The Underground Railroad: Navigate the Journey from Slavery to Freedom with 25 Projects by Judy Dodge Cummings hoopla The Underground Abductor by Nathan Hale Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla I Can Read: Harriet Tubman – Freedom Fighter by Nadia L. Hohn Library Catalog / hoopla What Was the Underground Railroad? by Yona Zeldis McDonough Library Catalog / Libby Who Was Harriet Tubman? by Yona Zeldis McDonough Library Catalog / Libby I Am Harriet Tubman by Brad Meltzer Library Catalog / Libby Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry Library Catalog / hoopla She Persisted: Harriet Tubman by Andrea Davis Pinkney Library Catalog / Libby Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder Library Catalog Little People, Big Dreams: Harriet Tubman by Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla Harriet: my first Harriet Tubman by Ma Isabel Sanchez Vegara Library Catalog William Still and His Freedom Stories: the Father of the Underground Railroad by Don Tate Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla The Center for Cartoon Studies presents: Harriet Tubman – Toward Freedom by Whit Taylor Library Catalog Box: Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford Library Catalog FICTION Freedom Over Me: eleven slaves, their lives and dreams brought to life by Ashley Bryan Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla Unbound: a novel in verse by Ann Burg Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla Stealing Freedom by Elisa Carbone Library Catalog / Libby Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis Library Catalog / Libby Underground: Finding the Light to Freedom by Shane W. Evans Library Catalog / Libby Underground by Jean Ferris Library Catalog Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson Library Catalog Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson Library Catalog True North by Kathryn Lasky Library Catalog Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story From the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla Eliza's Freedom Road: an Underground Railroad Diary by Jerdine Nolen Library Catalog / Libby Trouble Don't Last by Shelley Pearsall Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story by Andrea Davis Pinkney Library Catalog / Libby / hoopla The Ever-After Bird by Ann Rinaldi Library Catalog / hoopla Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringold Library Catalog Steal Away Home by Lois Ruby Library Catalog If I Just Had Two Wings by Virginia Frances Schwartz Library Catalog / hoopla Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter Library Catalog / Libby ADULT FILM The African Americans – Many Rivers to Cross: The Age of Slavery 1780-1860 Kanopy The African Americans – Many Rivers to Cross: The Black Atlantic 1500-1800 Kanopy The Great Courses – America's Long Struggle Against Slavery: "Episode 24 – Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman" Kanopy The Great Courses – America's Long Struggle Against Slavery: "Episode 27 – US Colored Troops: Those Who Served" Kanopy Harriet Library Catalog Harriet Tubman: They Called Her Moses hoopla The Spirituals: American Spirituals, Music and Slavery Kanopy Whispers of Angels: A Story of the Underground Railroad Kanopy NONFICTION Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America by Fergus M. Bordewich Library Catalog The Search for the Underground Railroad in Upstate New York by Tom Calarco hoopla The Long Walk to Freedom: Runaway Slave Narratives by Devon Carbado & Donald Weise Library Catalog / Libby Bound for the Promised Land : Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero by Kate Clifford Larson Library Catalog / Libby Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton Library Catalog / Libby She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica A. Dunbar Library Catalog / Libby Gateway to freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad by Eric Foner Library Catalog / Libby WAKE: the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall Library Catalog Harriet Tubman: The Life and The Life Stories by Jean M. Humez Library Catalog Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights by Mikki Kendall Library Catalog How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith Library Catalog / Libby The Underground Railroad Records: Narrating the Hardships, Hairbreadth Escapes, and Death Struggles of Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom by William Still, Quincy T. Mills, Ta-Nehisi Coates Library Catalog / Libby Underground Railroad in New York and New Jersey by William J. Switala hoopla The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends in Freedom by Kathleen G. Velsor hoopla The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights by Dorothy Wickenden Library Catalog / Libby FICTION The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier Library Catalog / Libby The Conductors by Nicole Glover Library Catalog / Libby Indigo by Beverly Jenkins Libby / hoopla The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy Library Catalog The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Library Catalog / Libby This press release was produced by the White Plains Public Library. The views expressed are the author's own.