Monthly in 2024 (weekly in June) you can participate in an online session. Session video is posted below as soon as available.
Tuesdays at 7 pm central time. Join us! Register at https://bit.ly/freecorr16
Future events
October 15: Owen Muelder on The UGRR in Western Illinois: Locations, Operators, Geography, drawing on his books The Underground Railroad in Western Illinois and Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society and his two decades as director of the Galesburg Colony Freedom Center at Knox College
November 19: Cherisse Jones-Branch on the experiences of Black women activists in rural Arkansas 1914-1965, drawing on her book Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps
January 21, 2025: A representative of the Illinois Task Force on the Underground Railroad on plans for a permanent state agency to advance knowledge and understanding of the UGRR and freedom more generally
Past events
