Lancaster Region

This course explores the national legacy of the Underground Railroad, regarded as our nation’s first racially-integrated & religiously-inspired civil rights movement born in the wake of the American Revolution. Lancaster and York Counties provided a backdrop for some of the earliest anti-slavery episodes in America, forming the origins of the movement that became known as the Underground Railroad. A tour of the authentic Underground Railroad sites will be offered at a later date for an additional fee. Registration for the tour will be separate from the classroom presentation. More information will be provided later. 

The course will present the stories and the backgrounds of 6 persons who assassinated U.S. presidents and two other political figures (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy).