jan 1, 2002 - In 2002, a middle school class went on a trip to a museum. While they were there they had found that Harriet had never received back pay. They wrote a letter to Senator Hillary Clinton. This got votes from Congress and they voted for her to get her back pay. All of the money was given to the Harriet Tubman Home.

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The article shows a document of what happened and describes what the middle schoolers did to take action. This would have happened long after her death. All of these documents the middle schoolers were looking at were found in a museum.

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