Underground Railroad
noun
variants
or less commonly Underground Railway
: a system of cooperation among active antislavery people in the U.S. before 1863 by which people escaping enslavement were secretly helped to reach the North or Canada
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Kansas City, Kansas’s land has historically served as a place of refuge for people fleeing religious, racial and political persecution — dating at least as far back to the Underground Railroad.
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2025
Later, the property became a stop on the Underground Railroad, offering shelter to those seeking to escape slavery.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 June 2025
However, while traveling to receive the International Freedom Conductor Award at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Ohio in May, she was hospitalized, KDFW reported at the time.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 19 June 2025
The Trump administration has attempted to discredit Jackie Robinson’s military service, expunge Harriett Tubman from official government histories of the Underground Railroad, and remove dozens of books by Black authors from the U.S. Naval Academy.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2025
Later, the property became a stop on the Underground Railroad, offering shelter to those seeking to escape slavery.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 21 June 2025
However, while traveling to receive the International Freedom Conductor Award at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Ohio in May, she was hospitalized, KDFW reported at the time.
—Angel Saunders, People.com, 19 June 2025
The Trump administration has attempted to discredit Jackie Robinson’s military service, expunge Harriett Tubman from official government histories of the Underground Railroad, and remove dozens of books by Black authors from the U.S. Naval Academy.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
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“Underground Railroad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Underground%20Railroad. Accessed 29 Jun. 2025.
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