Daily News | Burlington County will honor Louise Calloway, founder of its Underground Railroad Museum
Years later, workers discovered tunnels underneath the store that led to other safe houses and to the Delaware River, where people escaped by taking barges and boats further north to New York and Canada.In 2013, the original Underground Railroad Coffee House was closed due to financial pressures. By 2015, Calloway’s collections found a temporary location at the Historic Smithville Park in Eastampton, near Mount Holly.
There are spaces dedicated to the civil rights movement from the 1960s to more recent protests against police killings of Black people. “I’d like for us to gather and talk about this history,” she said. “Perhaps we could have Saturday afternoon conversations.”Calloway said of the push by some white Americans to ban books and teaching“They are trying to tune out the history. They don’t want the true history to be known. They don’t want us to know how powerful we are.”A Bucks County school district dropped its diversity program. Black families say the district isn’t acknowledging racism.
“The fact that we could accomplish this despite all we have been through is truly amazing,” she said.“There were white people who put their lives on the line to help Black people.” One museum room is devoted to abolitionists, Black and white.
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