Walkway Honors Harriet Tubman
Lynwood officials named the walkway at the Civic Center “Harriet Tubman Way” in a ceremony Saturday honoring the former slave who ran the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom before the Civil War.
The ceremony, which drew a crowd of 50, included songs by the Emmanuel Temple Church Choir, a storyteller, African music, dancing and comments by the mayor and City Council members. The effort to name the walkway in Tubman’s honor was launched by Caffie Greene, the 73-year-old founder of Concerned Black Women of Lynwood, who also spoke.
The event culminated in the unveiling of a sign honoring Tubman, who escaped from slavery in 1845. She died in 1913.
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