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	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad.
		The Freedom Center’s Executive Director and CEO, Spencer Crew, was previously the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.
		The John Parker Library which houses a collection of multimedia materials about the Underground Railroad and freedom-related issues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Underground_Railroad_Freedom_Center (832 words)

	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center - Museums
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center brings to life the inspiring, heroic stories of courage, cooperation and perseverance in the pursuit of freedom, especially from Underground Railroad history.
		First proposed in 1994, The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was a long time in the making, but last year it was finally dedicated in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad — a specially designed exhibit for children grades 3 through 8 within the context of escape and rescue covering 1830 to1861.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art28891.asp (432 words)

	Underground Railroad
		Always there, but totally invisible." – Joseph K., 45, Boulder, CO ©2002 National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
		When it opens in mid-2004, the Freedom Center will feature a special children´s exhibit on the Underground Railroad as one of its five permanent exhibits.
		The Underground Railroad is the symbolic term given to the routes enslaved Black Americans took to gain their freedom as they traveled, often as far as Canada and Mexico.
	www.freedomcenter.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_id=ABCFFEAC-ED17-4005-8698CAF502A5259E (165 words)

	Black Issues in Higher Education: Caretaker of `Underground Railroad' shares story with Xavier audience - noteworthy news - National Underground Railroad Freedom Center's Ed Rigaud
		Construction of the four-acre, three-pavilion Freedom Center complex--which is part of a $2 billion river front development initiative that includes Cincinnati's new football and baseball stadiums--began this past June.
		Historians say that Cincinnati, a major urban center separated from the slave-owning South by only a river, loomed large as an important gateway on the road to freedom in the years prior to and during the American Civil War.
		According to Rigaud, the new museum and educational center will commemorate the struggle of those valiant individuals who risked the perils of the journey to freedom.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DXK/is_22_20/ai_95915243 (599 words)

	Classics for Kids The Music of Freedom
		Pathways for Freedom: Maryland and the Underground Railroad
		The Underground Railroad is the symbolic name given to the routes they traveled from safe house to safe house until they reached freedom.
		The songs also encouraged slaves to join the Underground Railroad; provided inspiration and support for the long journey north; and celebrated the end of a successful trip to freedom.
	www.classicsforkids.com /shows/freedom.asp (135 words)

	Toyota Donates $1 Million to National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
		The initial concept for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center began in 1994 as a golden anniversary project of the Greater Cincinnati Region of the National Conference for Community and Justice (founded as the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Inc.), a human relations organization dedicated to fighting bias, bigotry and racism in America.
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a national distributive museum and learning center planned to open on Cincinnati's historic Ohio riverfront by 2004.
		The Freedom Center's National Advisory Board and honorary campaign co- chairs includes such nationally-known cultural and business leaders as Maya Angelou, Julian Bond, Bryant Gumble, Vernon Jordan, Jack Kemp and Elie Wiesel, among others.
	www.csrwire.com /article.cgi/388.html (716 words)

	Head of Freedom Center Speaks at CRS Luncheon
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which is scheduled to open mid-Summer 2004 on the northern bank of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, will celebrate the historic efforts of the Underground Railroad, showcase the efforts of modern day heroes and offer lessons and reflections on the ongoing struggle for freedom.
		As the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, he is building a museum from the ground up.
		The Cleveland Restoration Society and Preservation Resource Center of Northeastern Ohio is the region’s largest non-profit preservation organization and is a Local Partner affiliate of the National Trust.
	www.clevelandrestoration.org /PressRoom/sept903.htm (436 words)

	Freedom center's design to be unveiled
		The public will get its first look at the final architectural designs for the much-anticipated National Underground Railroad Freedom Center next week.
		What: The unveiling of the architectural design of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
		In other the freedom center news, the board at its Thursday meeting appointed Dr. John Fleming as chairman of the new National History Scholars Review Panel.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2000/11/22/loc_freedom_centers.html (352 words)

	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Celebrates First Year
		Carl Westmoreland, the center's senior adviser for historic preservation, spent seven years authenticating the slave pen, dismantling it at Maysville, Ky., and reassembling it at the Freedom Center.
		Although the Underground Railroad was very active around Cincinnati before the Civil War, the city also has a record of racial problems.
		The Freedom Center is among several black history museums enjoying a surge of popularity.
	www.wcpo.com /news/2005/local/08/28/freedom_center.html (880 words)

	FREEDOM: A Webzine from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
		The Freedom Center, which was invited to Mexico's national Freedom Celebration, hopes to capitalize on this increased access to technology to link up its educational programs with local students.
		The sustainable development movement, the melding of economic growth, social development and environmental protection interests, first popped onto the international radar in 1972 during the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, the first major meeting among international leaders to focus on the intersection of global environmental and community development issues.
		Plan-makers reasoned that global poverty could be reduced more rapidly by giving people at the local level access to the resources needed rather than chartering broad international programs with little trickle-down effect.
	www.freedommagazine.org /index.cfm?method=main.ShowArticle&ArticleID=39 (1704 words)

	Free at Last
		"The method of operating was not uniform but adapted to the requirements of each case," Isaac Beck, a veteran of Underground Railroad activity in southern Ohio, would recall in 1892.
		But its center was the Ohio River Valley, where scores of river crossings served as gateways from slave states to free and where, once across the Ohio, fugitives could hope to be passed from farm to farm all the way to the Great Lakes in a matter of days.
		In practice, the underground functioned with a minimum of central direction and a maximum of grass-roots involvement, particularly among family members and church congregations.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues04/dec04/free.html (318 words)

	CT - Freedom Center to open after 10-year odyssey
		The river itself ferried many fugitive slaves from the slave states to the freedom of the North on the last legs of their escape through the Underground Railroad.
		Because of this, the construction of the Freedom Center on the Ohio naks of the waterway is highly appropriate.
		CT - Freedom Center to open after 10-year odyssey
	www.catholiccincinnati.org /tct/aug1304/081304freedom.html (559 words)

	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Opens :: The Black Voice News :: Serving the Inland Empire for 30 years
		A historical march from Kentucky to Cincinnati symbolized the pilgrimage of slaves seeking freedom and ended with the lighting of an eternal flame on the balcony of the Freedom Center.
		The Freedom Center’s mission is to reveal stories about past and present freedom heroes and to challenge and inspire others to take courageous steps for freedom.
		Spencer Crew, executive director and CEO of the Freedom Center, and Ed J. Rigaud, founding executive director and president of the Freedom Center, presented awards during the gala.
	www.blackvoicenews.com /modules.php?file=article&name=News&op=modload&sid=2330 (566 words)

	Freedom Center Surpasses Attendance Goals in First Year
		Situated in Cincinnati, Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center celebrates the legacy of courage and multicultural cooperation embodied in the story of the Underground Railroad.
		CINCINNATI, Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center attracted more than 280,000 visitors in its first year, exceeding projected attendance of 260,000.
		The Freedom Center, which opened to the public on August 23, 2004, released new visitor data as part of a series of events and activities marking the museum and learning center's first anniversary.
	ww2.abc12.com /Global/story.asp?S=3688006 (744 words)

	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
		Situated at the foot of the Roebling Suspension Bridge, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will occupy a central place along the redeveloped Cincinnati Riverfront.
		Find additional websites with information on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
		The Freedom Center will document and commemorate the history of the Underground Railroad-a network of South-to-North routes for individuals escaping the bonds of slavery in the mid-1800s.
	culture.ohio.gov /nurfc.html (154 words)

	Heeding freedom's call / Ohio museum salutes Underground Railroad
		Now the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, which held its grand opening in Cincinnati on Aug. 23, makes details of the escapes and just about every other imaginable aspect of slavery in the United States accessible to the broad public.
		"Underground Railroad" refers to the network of people who helped about 100,000 slaves flee forced servitude in the South for freedom in the northern states and Canada.
		Colloquially known as the Underground Railroad Museum, it's a state-of-the-art facility that uses videos, photographs, recordings and other contemporary techniques to shed light on the antebellum era.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/12/TRG8M8LA3O1.DTL (759 words)

	PERI GmbH, Projects - Formwork Construction - National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, OH
		Cited as one of Cincinnati´s “Nationally Significant Buildings“ the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was created to comemorate the enslaved fugitives who sought freedom during the 1800´s.
		The Underground Railroad was a symbolic term given to the routes enslaved African Americans took to gain their freedom from prosecution.
		This 19th century freedom movement challenged the way Americans viewed slavery and freedom.
	www.peri.no /ww/en/pub/projects.cfm/fuseaction/showreference/reference_ID/624/referencecategory_ID/17.cfm (208 words)

	Center for Community Engagement
		This year, the event was held at the Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Downtown Cincinnati.
		Although the Freedom Center is now incorporated as a separate non-profit organization, NCCJ and the Freedom Center maintain a valuable partnership and continue to work together to encourage racial reconciliation.
		These students participated in the National Committee for Community and Justice’s (NCCJ) 7th Annual Walk As One Walk-a-thon/Freedom Run.
	www.uc.edu /cce/wao.html (373 words)

	Celebrities, Dignitaries and Scholars Gather to Dedicate the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
		"Their participation is a powerful testament to the witness and hope offered by the Underground Railroad and the value and impact of the Freedom Center experience." On Sunday night, festivities will begin with a special fundraising dinner to honor supporters-donors, scholars, government officials, celebrities and friends.
		The date was chosen to honor and highlight the Freedom Center's focus on historical and contemporary issues of freedom and slavery.
		Of equal importance, the Freedom Center will use a wide array of exhibits to educate the public about the historic and continuing struggle to establish universal for freedom in both the U.S. and around the world.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-15-2004/0002231850&EDATE= (1002 words)

	Underground Railroad Center - Knox College News
		The local center is affiliated with the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio.
		GALESBURG -- Owen Muelder, retired director of the Knox College Alumni Office, has been appointed director of the new Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College.
		The Underground Railroad was an informal network of people who helped thousands of African-American slaves escape to freedom prior to 1865, when slavery in the U.S. was abolished by the 13th Amendment.
	www.knox.edu /x7947.xml (359 words)

	WKRC 12 Cincinnati - National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
		Some visitors say the center is powerful and a moving experience, while critics say it fails to capture the misery of slavery and the battle for freedom.
		At the end of the procession, all participants are invited to ceremoniously donate "free soil" from their respective sites to the Freedom Center.
		350,000 are expected to visit the Freedom Center during its first year.
	www.wkrc.com /news/local/story.aspx?content_id=437C390D-4188-4194-BE92-0532D0135F23 (404 words)

	Freedom Center
		A beacon on the Ohio River, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a 160,000 s.f.
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was first proposed in 1994, and opened in August 2004.
		Megen/Dugan & Meyers construction management team was awarded the Build America award from the Associated General Contractors of America, for construction of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
	www.megenconstruction.com /freedom.htm (137 words)

	National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to Enhance Visitor Experience with HP Donation
		About the Freedom Center Opening in late 2004, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center teaches the lessons of history to engage and inspire today's freedom conductors.
		National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to Enhance Visitor Experience with HP Donation
		In addition, the Freedom Center and HP plan to explore technologies to enable collaboration by educators, designers, students and others working from remote locations.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-07-2003/0001997168&EDATE= (493 words)

	ce case study
		The 158,000-square-foot Freedom Center, located on the banks of the Ohio River, will use various mediums, including interactive exhibits, film, environmental theatre, artifacts and discussion forums to tell freedom stories, beginning with those about the Underground Railroad through contemporary freedom movements.
		Because The Enquirer covered the Freedom Center through its every stage and so many stories were written about the project, a sampling of articles dating back to 1997 was examined for content, context and trends associated with The Enquirer's coverage of the project for this report.
		These editorials and a dozen others that lend support to the Freedom Center project in the context of the larger Cincinnati riverbank construction initiatives may subconsciously put pressure on lawmakers to support the project's goals and lobby for government funding at the state and federal level, especially when coupled with the Center's persistent lobbying.
	www.units.muohio.edu /threads/cecasestudy.html (5159 words)

	VOA Special English - AMERICAN MOSAIC - National Underground Railroad Freedom Center / Olympic Cities / The Pixies
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a special museum.
		The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will offer a number of educational programs.
		The Freedom Center is on the north side of the Ohio River.
	www.manythings.org /voa/04/040820am_t.htm (958 words)

	Knox Designated "Freedom Station" - Knox College News
		The national center is developing a network of sites in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, devoted to research and education about the Underground Railroad and anti-slavery movements.
		"There is growing interest in 'heritage tourism,' and we expect the Freedom Center at Knox will draw visitors interested in the Underground Railroad and American history," Douglas said.
		Among the few written records of the Underground Railroad in the area is the journal of the Rev. Samuel Wright, a Knox trustee from 1849 to 1872.
	www.knox.edu /x7255.xml (402 words)

	African American Registry: The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opens!
		On this date in 2004, the Public Dedication of the National* Underground Railroad Freedom Center (NURFC) took place.
		The Freedom Center's curving architecture reflects the winding river and the often-changing paths to freedom.
		In the 1800's the city served as a major hub of activity on the Underground Railroad and its banks were a refuge to thousands of Blacks seeking hope and a new way of life in America.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2552/The_National_Underground_Railroad_Freedom_Center_opens (187 words)

	The Cincinnati Post
		And just as the Underground Railroad's "safe houses" once sheltered fugitives traveling hundreds of miles to be free, the museum will include an area called "Reflect, Respond, Resolve," designed to be a "safe place" for visitors to reflect on and discuss the experiences and issues that they encounter at the Freedom Center.
		The museum, the centerpiece of a $2 billion riverfront renaissance, commemorates the 19th century history of the Underground Railroad, the term given to the perilous paths toward freedom taken by fugitive slaves and abolitionist "conductors" who helped them traverse routes stretching from the Deep South to as far as Canada and Mexico.
		In the Ohio River valley, there was a virtual war going on on that river over the issue of the Underground Railroad helping fugitive slaves get their freedom.
	www.cincypost.com /2004/07/31/under073104.html (1965 words)

	National Constitution Center: The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom
		Description: Dr. Spencer Crew, President and CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, will deliver the annual Fredric Miller Memorial Lecture at the National Constitution Center on April 26.
		National Constitution Center: The Underground Railroad: Journey to Freedom
		This opening program for the National Constitution Center’s upcoming exhibit, Lincoln, the Constitution and the Civil War is offered in partnership with the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers University-Camden.
	www.constitutioncenter.org /visiting/CalendarofEvents/Events/2005_04_26_13681.shtml (138 words)

	The Underground Railroad Site - Links and Citations
		UGRR: Special Resource Study - This site presents the results of the National Park Service's 1990 study of the Underground Railroad.
		Stories of the Underground Railroad -- Notes from the Shock Family.
		The North Star: Tracing the Underground Railroad - Includes a forum for people with research questions.
	education.ucdavis.edu /NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/links.htm (414 words)

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