A public park space in Baltimore that once honored two Confederate Army generals has been renamed for civil rights icon Harriet Tubman. Hundreds of people, including city officials and Tubman family members, gathered in Wyman Park Dell for the ceremony on Saturday, held on the 105th anniversary of her death, The Baltimore Sun reported. “We stand on the shoulders of this great woman,” Ernestine Jones-Williams, a 71-year-old descendant of the abolitionist leader who spoke on behalf of the family, said. “We are overwhelmed.
Source: Baltimore Rededicates Former Confederate Memorial Site To Harriet Tubman
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