Monthly Speaker Series: Dr. Edda Fields-Black

Harriet Tubman's legendary life is widely known: escaping enslavement, leading others to

freedom via the Underground Railroad, and tirelessly fighting for change. But a crucial chapter

often overlooked is her daring Civil War service as a spy for the US Army, detailed in Dr. Edda L.

Fields-Black's groundbreaking book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and

Black Freedom during the Civil War. A direct descendant of a soldier who fought in the raid,

Fields-Black unveils Tubman's command of spies and pilots and intelligence gathered from