# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Seeking A New Understanding of Minnesota's Role in the Underground Railroad
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 20 Feb, 2025 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: We have the honor of award-winning scholar Karen Sieber joining us February 20, 2025 at 7pm to discuss Minnesota's role in the Underground Railroad. Sieber's extensive work includes building a collaborative digital database and classroom resources about Black freedom seekers in the nineteenth century Midwest. She will also discuss her recent discovery of documentation that places noted Black abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Moses Dickson in Minnesota during the 1850s. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from a distinguished scholar, educator, and social justice advocate. 

Free for members and $5 for non-member participants. 
Offered both in person and Zoom at olmstedhistory.com/events.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/rochester/seeking-a-new-understanding-of-minnesotas-role-in-the-underground-railroad/200027781968750
- **Event Categories**: 
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 454

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Rochester
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1195 W Circle Dr SW, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55902
- **lat**: 44.00562
- **long**: -92.5116
- **full address**: 1195 W Circle Dr SW, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55902

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Seeking A New Understanding of Minnesota's Role in the Underground Railroad being held?
  - **A:** Seeking A New Understanding of Minnesota's Role in the Underground Railroad takes place on Thu, 20 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 20 Feb, 2025 at 08:30 pm at 1195 W Circle Dr SW, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55902.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Seeking A New Understanding of Minnesota's Role in the Underground Railroad?
  - **A:** Seeking A New Understanding of Minnesota's Role in the Underground Railroad is organized by History Center of Olmsted County.

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