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Harriet Tubman awarded posthumous rank of general on Veterans Day

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 November 2024

Tubman helped free several Black people from slavery and led soldiers on a gunboat raid during US civil war

Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.

Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad state park in Maryland’s Dorcester county for a formal ceremony making Tubman a one-star brigadier general in the state’s national guard.