Iowa Public Television

Freedom Seekers who escaped from slavery by traveling through the state of Iowa traveled East, not North. Find out why and other important information you’d need to make your own escape to freedom. Just remember: when traveling through Iowa, Don’t Follow the Drinking Gourd!

This workshop is offered at no cost by the African American Museum of Iowa.

Following this ICN session, confirmed registrants receive the complimentary books Sarny/Nightjohn and And Not Afriad to Dare or alternate titles.

Vocabulary:

• Segregation
• Integration
• Discrimination
• Underground Railroad
• Quaker

Additional Resources:

Barefoot by Paula Duncan Edwards

Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine

Underground Railroad Dvd by The History Channel

National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

National Geographic Underground Railroad.

Iowa and the Underground Railroad .

Sessions are provided at no cost by Iowa Public Television in collaboration with the Iowa Communications Network to PK-12 students and the adults working with or on behalf of PK-12 students in Iowa. If you are not employed by a school district or an AEA please register at library sites only.

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