Speakers include:

Charles Blockson, curator of the Charles Blockson Collection at Temple University and author of The Underground Railroad: First Person Narratives of Escapes to the North

Dr. Loren Schweninger, professor at UNC-Greensboro and coauthor of the award-winning Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation

Barbara Tagger, historian and Southeast Coordinator of the National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program

Dr. Adrienne Israel, professor at Guilford College

Beverly Gage, journalist and PhD. candidate at Columbia

Sandrea Williamson, instructor at NC A&T State University

The symposium is free; for a registration brochure email Linda Evans (email address below).