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Late Battle Creek resident

Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved

person, famously fought for free-

dom and independence not just

for African Americans but for all

women.

Her grave is located next to a State

of Michigan historical marker at

Battle Creek’s Oak Hill Cemetery

and the country’s largest statue of

her is located at Sojourner Truth

Monument downtown.

The late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther

King, who was assassinated after

starting a nationwide, non-violent

civil rights movement for social

justice including equal access to

the ballot box, once spoke from the

pulpit at Battle Creek’s First United

Methodist Church.

And, former Battle Creek residents,

Erastus and Sarah Hussey, took great

risk in helping people escaping slav-

ery by being part of a network called

the Underground Railroad, a heroic

act enshrined at the Underground

Freedom isn’t free, youths

learn on walking history tour

Historian and tour guide Donna Rickman wrapped the Friday history tour at

the Underground Railroad Monument behind the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Friday for more than 20 Freedom School students and staff. (Shopper News photo

by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

Railroad Monument near the W.K.

Kellogg House.

These were just some of the les-

sons more than 20 students from the

R.I.S.E. Corp Children’s Defense

Fund Freedom School learned thanks

to a Battle Creek walking tour

Friday led by local historian Donna

Rickman.

“Harriett Tubman never, never,

ever lost a passenger,” Emilio Ey