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Arun Jaitley speaks on media freedom and responsibilities in JS Verma memorial lecture in Delhi – Video

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Central Minister Arun Jaitley said that the the age of ban on media organisations was over. Jaitley said this while delivering the first Justice J S Verma memorial lecture in New Delhi. Watch...

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Jiyuu no Tsubasa (Wings of Freedom) – Linked Horizon (Piano Cover) – Video

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'Gateway to Freedom' offers new insight into the workings of the Underground Railroad

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Henry Box Browns escape started in Richmond, Va. Saddened by the sale of his wife and children to a slaveholder in a different state, Brown paid to be sealed up in a three-foot-long crate and shipped to Philadelphia by rail and steamboat.

Brown survived the agonizing trip, sang a hymn of praise after being freed from the box, and was assisted by sympathizers in getting first to New York and then to Boston, where he was hidden in the home of an officer of an anti-slave organization. From there, he joined his sister in New Bedford, Mass., then moved to England.

Brown was provoked to escape by the loss of family ties. But along with a profound desire for freedom, most escaped slaves from the pre-Civil War South were motivated by physical abuse. Samuel Hill, the slave of a farmer who worked him hard, clothed him poorly, and beat him, was one such escapee, but his story is typical of many.

With celebrated firmness, American patriots demanded Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. But the task of securing freedom for all Americans was far from finished when the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783.

Even before the American Revolution, African slaves took their lives in their hands and made perilous journeys. These quests the routes they took, the places they hid along the way, the people who helped them came to be known as the Underground Railroad. But even after former slaves succeeded in making their way north of the Mason-Dixon line, there was still the danger that they could be captured and returned to slavery, so many rode the Railroad on to Canada.

As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eric Foner shows in his new book, Gateway to Freedom, this Railroad had many branches. And though Foner focuses his scholarly attention on the route through New York City, his text reveals the larger story of how thousands of slaves, mostly from the northern part of the southern United States, were helped to win their freedom.

Foner subtitles his book The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad. Indeed, this account digs deep, and unearths important and perhaps for many readers unexpected aspects of the famed Underground Railroad.

Much of the book concentrates not on the escapes themselves, but on the groups that enabled these escapes. Foner notes that in 1838 the American Anti-Slavery Society urged abolitionists to appoint committees of vigilance, whose duty it shall be to assist fugitives from slavery. By 1842, the National Anti-Slavery Standard (a publication of the AASS) reported the existence of such organizations in most of our cities and large towns.

But there was infighting among anti-slavery groups. The task of assisting fugitive slaves, however, would remain a frequent point of cooperation among persons otherwise loath to work with one another, Foner says.

Foner, a distinguished historian and professor at Columbia University, has written a number of books on slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. In 2011 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Fiery Trial, a densely detailed but revelatory look at Abraham Lincolns evolving ideas as to how to heal the injustice of slavery.

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MLK Day: Final Freedom Train in Bay Area

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SAN JOSE -- America's final Freedom Train chugged out of San Jose's Diridon Station and into the history books Monday, ending three decades of tributes on the nation's rails to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring legacy.

After years of declining interest, the chartered Caltrain roared to San Francisco on what organizers say was its last journey with a rejuvenated spirit and about 1,500 passengers -- five times more than last year.

Packed joyously in 10 train cars, the multicultural mix of pilgrims sang civil rights hymns, read MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech and shared personal stories. Michelle Geary's mother, Arlee Geary, made sure their family was onboard.

Jade Rugnao, 7, takes pictures onboard the Freedom Train during its final run on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday Jan. 19, 2015, from San Jose to San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) ( Karl Mondon )

"My mom called me and said, 'I grew up on Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, and if this is going to be the last train I want all of us to ride it," said Michelle Geary of San Jose, whose son and husband were also part of the final ride.

King's widow, Coretta Scott King, started the Freedom Train celebrations in dozens of cities across the country to commemorate the historic civil rights march her husband led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

But with so many new competing events over the years marking MLK's birthday, the train journeys faded away, leaving the Bay Area's as the lone survivor. This year, after the police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York, the traditional day of service also became a day of civil rights protests.

"All those people protesting these days, they ought to be demanding the continuation of the Freedom Train because losing this is a really a shame," said Charles Herndon, who was the conductor on the first 25 years of MLK trains before retiring. He rode the farewell train as a passenger Monday.

At 54 miles, from station to station, the San Jose-to-San Francisco trip was about the same distance King and his fellow marchers traveled five decades ago.

Donna Clay, who remembers the heartache of the Jim Crow experience during her childhood in Texas, came from Oakland to catch the last train.

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MLK Day: Bigger crowd for final year of Freedom Train

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(File photo Kirstina Sangsahachart/ Bay Area News Group) Maliyah Thomas is seen here waiting to board a Caltrain Freedom Train as it pulled into the University Avenue train station in Palo Alto in Jan. 2013. This year the Freedom Train will depart from Diridon Station Jan. 19 at 9:45am for its last ride down the rails to San Francisco. ( Kirstina Sangsahachart )

SAN JOSE -- America's final Freedom Train chugged out of San Jose's Diridon Station and into the history books Monday, ending three decades of tributes on the nation's rails to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s enduring legacy.

After years of declining interest, the chartered Caltrain roared to San Francisco on what organizers say was its last journey with a rejuvenated spirit and about 1,500 passengers -- five times more than last year.

Packed joyously in 10 train cars, the multicultural mix of pilgrims sang civil rights hymns, read MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech and shared personal stories. Michelle Geary's mother, Arlee Geary, made sure their family was onboard.

"My mom called me and said, 'I grew up on Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy, and if this is going to be the last train I want all of us to ride it," said Michelle Geary of San Jose, whose son and husband were also part of the final ride.

King's widow, Coretta Scott King, started the Freedom Train celebrations in dozens of cities across the country to commemorate the historic civil rights march her husband led from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

But with so many new competing events over the years marking MLK's birthday, the train journeys faded away, leaving the Bay Area's as the lone survivor. This year, after the police killings of unarmed black men in Missouri and New York, the traditional day of service also became a day of civil rights protests.

"All those people protesting these days, they ought to be demanding the continuation of the Freedom Train because losing this is a really a shame," said Charles Herndon, who was the conductor on the first 25 years of MLK trains before retiring. He rode the farewell train as a passenger Monday.

At 54 miles, from station to station, the San Jose-to-San Francisco trip was about the same distance King and his fellow marchers traveled five decades ago.

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