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Hilltown Family Variety Show
Underground Railroad Episode

Saturday from 9-10am
Originally airing on January 23rd, 2010
WXOJ LP – 103.3 FM – Valley Free Radio
Northampton, MA

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PLAYLIST

• The Deedle Deedle Dees – “Underground Railroad” [Freedom in a Box!]
• Mountain Heart – “Gospel Train” [Road that Never End]
• Kim & Reggie Harris – “Harriet Tubman / Steal Away” [Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad]
• Toots & the Maytals – “Freedom Train” [Putumayo World Playground 2]
• The Deedle Deedle Dees – “Henry Box Brown” [Freedom in a Box!]
• Station Id: Bill Harley [www.billharley.com]
• Sally Rogers  – “What Can One Little Person Do?” [What Can One Little Person Do?]
• Leonardo – “Makin’ Waves” [Makin’ Waves]
• Station Id: Steve Weeks [www.steveweeksmusic.com]
• STORYTIME: Read by Morgan Freeman (Music by Taj Mahal) – Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad
• Ethel Caffie-Austin – “Freedom Train” [I Believe in Angels Singing: Songs from the Underground Railroad]
• Jawbone – “Oh Freedom” [Holy Guacamole! A Jawbone Jamboree!]
• Kim & Reggie Harris – “Free at Last” [Steal Away: Songs of the Underground Railroad]
• Bill Harley – “Wade in the Water” [I’m Gonna Let it Shine]
• Larry Long – “Way Down Yonder in the White Man’s Field” [Here I Stand: Elders’ Wisdom, Children’s Song]
• Phil Rosenthal – “Darling Nelly Grey” [This Land is Your Land]
• Taj Mahal – “Following the Drinking Gourd” [Freedom: Songs from the Heart of America]
• Leadbelly – “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” [Lead Belly Sings for Children]

Discover the Songs: Lyrics & History

• Follow the Drinking Gourd: The Story Behind the Song
• Darling Nelly Gray
• Steal Away
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot
• Wade in the Water

Western Massachusetts Resources

• Ross Farm (Hill-Ross Farm) in the Florence section of Northampton, MA
• Dorsey-Jones House in the Florence section of Northampton, MA
• The David Ruggles Center: Early Florence History & Underground Railroad Studies
• Sojourner Truth Statue Project in Florence, MA
• Northampton Association of Education and Industry
• Basil Dorsey: Case Study of a Fugitive Slave in Florence, Massachusetts (A project of the Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School)
• Massachusetts Underground Railroad Network

On-Line Resources for Underground Railroad Studies (where you will find loads of other links and resources!)

• Follow the Drinking Gourd – Art project based on a slave song. (K-2)
• Photos of Underground Railroad Locations and Signs
• Underground Railroad Video (BrainPop)
• Virtual Underground Railroad Quilt
• Underground Railroad Quilt Code
• National Geographic Online Presents “The Underground Railroad”
• Underground Railroad Code Words & Phrases
• PBS: The Underground Railroad
• National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
• Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
• Harriet Tubman (Timeline)

Reading List

• Harriet Tubman by Kathleen Kudlinski
• Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford
• Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I A Woman by Patricia C. Mckissack
• Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Anne Rockwell
• A Picture Book of Sojourner Truth by David A Adler
• Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery by William Miller
• A Picture Book of Frederick Douglass by David A. Adler
• Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
• Follow the Drinking Gourd by Bernardine Connelly and Yvonne Buchanan
• Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson and James E. Ransome
• The Underground Railroad for Kids: From Slavery to Freedom with 21 Activities by Mary Kay Carson