A crowd gathered at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland, for a ceremony to honor Tubman's legacy and officially commission her as a one-star general.

Now, many years after her death, Tubman is officially a one-star brigadier general, according to The Associated Press.

While our history curricula include events such as people being enslaved and the civil rights movement, the subject is most prominent during Black History Month. Campaigners such as The Black ...