As of the day I’m writing this, it is MLK Day, a federal holiday in American meant to celebrate one of the most renowned civil rights leaders in history. Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr.
Throughout the 1960s, Dr. King pushed his nonviolent approach to protest, and fought for equal rights for all, but it wasn’t long before that that New York’s Capital Region became a staple of racial independence.
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Albany’s Underground Railroad
Throughout the 19th Century, the “Underground Railroad” became one of the most important routes in America. It wasn’t underground (for the most part), and it wasn’t a railroad. It was, however, a connection of trails that led from the slave-owning south to the free north that helped slaves escape the horrors of slavery…