Quilts, secret codes, for Underground Railroad

Freedom Suits statue added to Underground Railroad program

The Freedom Suits Statue outside the Civic Courts Building downtown has been added to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program.Created by created by civil rights artist Preston Jackson, the statue commemorates 326 St. Louis Black Americans, including Dred and Harriett Scott, who sought freedom from enslavement by filing lawsuits in the circuit courts between 1814 and 1860.Jackson’s work, entitled “Freedom’s Home,” was unveile…

Quilts, secret codes, for Underground Railroad

St. Charles Episcopal Church, in conjunction with the Anti Racism Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, will present Ms Connie Martin (MA, Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Speaker) to discuss Pre Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, June 5, at St. Charles Episcopal...