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struggle4progress

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 05:38 PM Apr 2016

Harriet Tubman's military service added up to $20 a month

Kevin Lilley, Army Times
6:19 p.m. EDT April 20, 2016

... Tubman ... married Nelson Davis, who’d served as a private in .. the U.S. Colored Infantry. When Davis died, she received a widow’s military pension of $8 a month ...

Tubman received no pension.. for her time assisting Union forces. So .. she talked to her congressman.

... from 1899 on, thanks to an act of Congress signed by President McKinley, she received an increased monthly military pension. The initial House bill requested $25 a month. A Senate report on the bill found such a figure would create “a new avenue for pension increases” and suggested the lower amount that would go into the final law.

That amount: twenty dollars.


http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/2016/04/20/harriet-tubman-military-service/83301424/

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Harriet Tubman's military service added up to $20 a month (Original Post) struggle4progress Apr 2016 OP
Rachel Maddow talked about that and how Tubman paid for her elderly slave parents freedom for $20. SunSeeker Apr 2016 #1
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