Freedom Trails at the Crossroads
3rd National Underground Railroad Summit
This year’s conference takes a cue from our host city, Indianapolis, often referred to as the “Crossroads of America” and explores the Underground Railroad as a meeting point and zone of contact where cultures, geographies, regions, races, ethnicities, religious and political ideologies, met and interacted. In addition to exploring past Underground Railroad connections, the conference seeks to explore ways in which present day interest in the story of the Underground Railroad transcends local history in favor of making national connections with global significance.
The four day conference will feature pre and post-conference
events, exhibits, speakers, and workshops, hosted at the Hilton-
Indianapolis North. Make your reservations early at 1-800-Hiltons
to receive the conference rate.
We look forward to seeing YOU in 2009!
2009 Co-Hosts and Co-Sponsors: The National Park
Service Network to Freedom Program, Indiana Freedom Trails, Organization of American Historians (OAH), the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DHPA), and the African American Research and Service Institute at Ohio University.
Welcome
The Friends Association is an “inter-network” in advocacy and support of the National Park Service-National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program and our membership-at-large. It is our purpose to generate stewardship and financial support for the continued documentation, commemoration, education, preservation, and research connected to the national and international movement known as the Underground Railroad and its historic resistance to enslavement through flight and escape in the Western Hemisphere.
List of current Friends available here.
