Harriet Tubman awarded posthumous rank of general on Veterans Day
Tubman helped free several Black people from slavery and led soldiers on a gunboat raid during US civil warRevered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland’s Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s national guard. Continue reading...
Tubman helped free several Black people from slavery and led soldiers on a gunboat raid during US civil war
Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.
Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland’s Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s national guard. Continue reading...
