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In celebration of Black History Month, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian and author will present a public lecture on the civil rights icon Harriet Tubman’s role during the Civil War at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the University Downtown Center, 67 Washington St., 91ÉçÇø. This event is free and open to the public.

Fields-Black, professor of history and director of the , will discuss Tubman’s often-neglected involvement in the Civil War, particularly her role in the June 1863 Combahee River Raid, where she helped to liberate more than 700 people from rice plantations in South Carolina.

A descendant of one of the formerly enslaved men who fought in the raid herself, Fields-Black won the and the 2025 for a book highlighting this chapter in Tubman’s life: COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War.

This event is presented by the Harriet Tubman Center for Freedom and Equity at 91ÉçÇø in partnership with the History Department, the Provost’s Office, Harpur Dean’s Office, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

For more information, email Anne Bailey, director of the Tubman Center, at abailey@binghamton.edu.