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Created Equal Film Series features “Underground Railroad: The William Still Story” next Wednesday

Underground Railroad: The William Still Story reveals the largely untold story of William Still, who is one of the most important individuals of the Underground Railroad. Still smuggled many enslaved Americans across the U.S. border to Canada amidst the danger of bounty hunters.
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From the Virginia Museum of History & Culture:

The Created Equal Film Series in Honor of Grady W. Powell is in its fifth year at the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. The series, which is free and open to the public, focuses on themes related to civil rights, human rights, and social justice in American history.

Join us for a free screening of Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (2012, 55 minutes) on Wednesday, February 28, at 6:30 p.m. Stay and listen to a historian provide commentary after the film.

Underground Railroad: The William Still Story reveals the largely untold story of William Still, who is one of the most important individuals of the Underground Railroad. Still smuggled many enslaved Americans across the U.S. border to Canada amidst the danger of bounty hunters. To this day, his record of those he helped escape provides some of the best evidence of the workings of the Underground Railroad, detailing the freedom seekers who used it, where they came from, how they escaped, and the families they left behind.

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Trevor Dickerson is the Editor and Co-Founder of RVAHub.