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 .

Iowa Core Essential Concepts applied:

Social Studies: Behavior Sciences:

Understand current social issues to determine how the individual formulates opinions and responds to issues.

Social Studies: History:

Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical things skills in order to interpret events and issues.

Understand the effect of economic needs and wants on individual and group decisions.

Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements.

Social Studies: Geography:

Understand the use of geographic tools to locate and analyze information about people, places, and environments.

Social Studies: Geography:

Understand how geographic and human characteristics create culture and define regions.

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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