Journey to Freedom

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item posted 16:21:30: 08-03-04 by melissa.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center opened it doors to the public today, 10 years after NCCJ executive director Chip Harrod teamed with Procter & Gamble to create a landmark that "would take attention from strained race relations and focus it on Cincinnati's history of racial cooperation.”

The largest museum of its kind, the 158,000 sq. ft. center utilizes stark examples of slave life, such as an 1830 Kentucky slave pen, along with interactive exhibits and information to educate and motivate its visitors to help abolish modern day slavery.

The center’s vision for change extends itself to the Freedom Station Program, where educators nationwide can interface within forums on racial justice, equity, human rights and economic opportunity.


In an awards ceremony at Hull in 1999, Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, "Slavery...I didn't know about all these forms that existed. I think it's largely because we aren't expecting it. It is hidden.”
(via Anti-Slavery.org)

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