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Freedom Train



Just a couple of results from a search of Northern Light for "freedom train"
below:
Title: Civil Rights in conflict: The "Birmingham plan" and the Freedom
Train, 1947
Summary: ON CHRISTMAS EVE, 1947, headlines in the Birmingham Post announced:
"Freedom Train Cancellation Due: Plan for Two Lines Called 'Unacceptable':
City Refuses to Make Exception." On Christmas Day the New York Times
declared: "Freedom Train to Skirt 2 Cities. . . Birmingham Is Ruled Out."1
The news followed several months of tense negotiations over the fate of a
traveling display of national American treasures. These negotiations
revealed significant divisions in the agendas of African American
spokespersons at the national and local levels, as well as the defiant
racial attitudes of Birmingham's white leadership, eight years before the
onset of the classic phase of the Civil Rights movement in 1955. Although
the Freedom Train crisis did not strike a blow against the legality of
segregation in Alabama, the Birmingham chapter of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) did score a moral victory
during the height of its membership and influence by denying the segregated
city an opportunity to host a cultural event of patriotic significance.2
Source: Alabama Review

Title: `Freedom Train' history for kids
Summary: For 27 years, Freedom Train, the inspirational story of Harriet
Tubman, the woman sometimes called the Moses of her people, has been touring
the country, bringing theater and history to American school kids. In the
1970s, when the musical play by Marvin Gordon was relatively new, Joy Kelly
spent several years playing Tubman, the woman who was born a slave, escaped
to freedom, then helped hundreds of other slaves to escape.
Source: The Florida Times-Union
        So, pretty obviously, same term mean different things in different
times to different people.

Sharon A. Pullen, CA
Suffolk County Archivist
Historical Documents Library
Office of the County Clerk
310 Center Drive
Riverhead, NY 11901-3392

Phone: 631-852-2015
Email: Sharon.Pullen@co.suffolk.ny.us

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