Topic - Wes Moore

"Harriet Tubman lived the values and virtues that I was taught when I served in the United States Army," Mr. Moore said at the event in Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore. "And with each act of courage, Harriet Tubman helped bring us together as a nation and a people. She fought for a kind of unity that can only be earned through danger, risk, and sacrifice. And it is a unity we still benefit from to this day."

Harriet Tubman commissioned as a brigadier general in Maryland National Guard →

Nobody would have judged Tubman had she chosen to remain in Philadelphia and coordinate abolitionist efforts from there, Moore said.

Abolitionist Harriet Tubman posthumously named a general in Veterans Day ceremony →