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Students learn about Harriet Tubman on $20 bill

At this morning’s assembly, Assistant Head of School Lou Anne Collins spoke about Harriet Tubman and how she will be the new face on the $20 bill. Many of the students knew basic information about Tubman, but Mrs. Collins gave detailed information about Tubman’s life and then concluded the assembly by reading the following poem about her: 
Harriet Tubman
By Eloise Greenfield

Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come into this world to be no slave
And wasn’t going to stay one either

“Farewell!” she sang to her friends one night
She was mighty sad to leave ’em
But she ran away that dark, hot night
Ran looking for her freedom

She ran to the woods and she ran through the woods
With the slave catchers right behind her
And she kept on going till she got to the North
Where those mean men couldn’t find her

Nineteen times she went back South
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn’t take no stuff
Wasn’t scared of nothing neither
Didn’t come in this world to be no slave
And didn’t stay one either

And didn’t stay one either
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