Harriet was strategic, cunning and functioned with nerves of steel. Each trip was a covert operation that ran at great risk. She was the conductor who ran the ground game expertly. Under threat of death and with a $40,000 bounty on her head, she ran the dangerous routes many times.
Without Martin Luther King, Jr., I would have no knowledge of the fullness of you or even what it feels like to have met your acquaintance. Without the blood, sweat and tears that MLK shed and his repudiation of state-sanctioned terrorism of Black people, our paths would have never crossed in the ways that we have come to know each other. The bread that we have had the good fortune and God’s favor to break together at work and in friendship would have never been tasted.
