Join us as Connie Martin reveals the secret codes and hidden messages in her ancestors' quilts used on the Underground Railroad, as captured by her mother's book: LIZZIE'S STORY.
Connie earned a BA from Illinois State University and an MA from Aurora University with a Thesis in Integrating African American History Lessons in Educational Curriculums. She is a retired middle school Language Arts teacher and 35-year Aqua Fitness Master Trainer, Presenter, Senior Fitness instructor, and mother.
She tells the history of the Underground Railroad, safe routes, and shares the history of key abolitionists that have been passed down to her, a sixth-generation descendant of captured enslaved Africans forced into slavery in America. Connie has been accepted on the Roster of the Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Speakers Bureau 2021-2024.