Underground Railroad Resources

Web Sites:

Harriett Tubman and the Underground Railroad

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html

The Underground Railroad

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/

Threads of Freedom: The Underground Railroad Story in Quilts

http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/threads_of_freedom/threads2.html

Underground Railroad Quilt Secret Codes

http://home.columbus.rr.com/bradshaw/UNDERRR/quilt/underground_railroad_quilt.htm

Education Place: Graphic Organizers

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

Library of Congress Presents America’s Stories

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

The Underground Railroad Exhibit

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/undergroundrr/index_a.html

Alton and the Underground Railroad

http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/railroad.htm

The Underground Railroad in Southwestern Illinois

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ihy960228.html

Aboard the Underground Railroad: Owen Lovejoy House

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/il1.htm

Books:

Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky, Ringgold, Faith, Scholastic Inc.:

New York, NY, 1992.

Harriet Tubman, Nicholson, Catherine, Scholastic Inc.: New York, NY, 2002.

Hidden In Plain View: A Secret Story Of Quilts and the Underground Railroad, Tobin, Jacqueline L. and Dobard, Raymond G., Doubleday: New York, NY,

1999.

Honey I Love, Greenfield, Eloise, Harper Collins: New York, NY, 1978.

Video:

Brittany Meets Harriet Tubman, Wildflower Productions, 21787 Compton Rd.,

Athens, AL, 35613