Jackson Train Station Up For National Historic Recognition
As someone born and raised in Jackson, the train station has always held some major significance. I even, like many of us who grew up in the area, got my senior pictures taken there in high school. However, as iconic as the train station is to Jackson residents, it actually has more historical significance than many of us first realized.
There is already so much history behind the 150-year-old Amtrak station and according to MLive it has long been credited for its role in developing the city’s economy.
Now, though, MLive reports this Black History Month historians in Jackson want to add the iconic train station to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, run by the National Park Service.
Chickamauga And Chattanooga National Military Park And The Underground Railroad Network To Freedom Tuesday, February 23, 2021
The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park officially became part of the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom in 2020. The National Park Service operates a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories. Several of the national military park’s units and outlying areas met the criteria, and after months of research and documenting the historic connections to the Underground Railroad, the park was accepted as part of the Network to Freedom.
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Joyce Mosley stands in Eden Cemetery on Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. Mosely believes she has nearly 100 relatives buried at Eden. (Ryan Collerd for PlanPhilly)
Google “Eden Cemetery” and you’re bound to encounter an impressive list of influential Black Philadelphians laid to rest there. Absalom Jones, Marian Anderson, Octavius Catto, Julian Abele, Frances Harper, and William Still are a few of the well-known figures who come up.
But Eden’s story is larger than its “notables.” Its very existence was shaped by segregation and the fight for civil rights, a history legible in its archival documents, material culture, and physical design, if you know how to read them.
Grant Crushed The KKK, What Will It Take For President-Elect Biden To Crush The Proud Boys And Other Extremists?
Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling
Civil Rights leaders and pastors just warned that the Proud Boys, which tore down and destroyed Black Lives Matter banners outside several historic Black churches, evoked memories of when the Ku Klux Klan gathered and burned crosses. Alongside other White extremists, the group cheered as members poured lighter fluid on burning Black Lives Matters signs, one just outside of Asbury United Methodist Church (AUMC) in Washington, DC. (1) AUMC, a racially inclusive church, is the oldest Black Methodist church in the city and helped lead the Abolition Movement, assisting escaped slaves in the National Underground Railroad Network of Freedom. (2)