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The Knowledge Exchange Course ‘Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in the Chicago Region’


UNIVERSITY PARK–(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2016.  The Knowledge Exchange is now accepting registrations for its course ‘Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad.’  Join author Larry McClellan in this special 4-week course for an exploration of the movement of freedom seekers and the networks of the Underground Railroad that supported them in the decades before the Civil War.  Looking at: Slavery and Abolitionism in Illinois; Freedom Stories of Caroline Quarles and others; Black Leadership and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850; and Kidnappings and the Great Chicago Exodus.

The course will take place in classroom B2201 at Governors State University, 1 University Parkway, University Park on Fridays, Feb. 19 & 26, March 4 & 11 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.  The registration fee is $36.50.  REGISTER HERE

About the Presenter: Dr. Larry McClellan

After finishing his graduate studies at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, Larry helped create Governors State University in 1976, and served long-term as Professor of Sociology and Community Studies.  He was mayor of University Park in the mid-1970s and has been deeply involved with racial justice and black history concerns for many years.  He has just completed co-authoring a book on Carolina Quarles, a freedom seeker who escaped from St. Louis in 1843, and has done presentations on the Underground Railroad for national and state level conferences.  In 2016 he is completing a book on the Underground Railroad in the Chicago region.

Source: http://www.govst.edu

 


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