Baltimore's Hidden Communication:(Un)written Words by Harriet Tubman
and Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Journalist, Lorena Hickok
By Katherine Cottle, Goucher College
Abstract: “Baltimore's Hidden Communication: Un(written) Words by Harriet Tubman and
Eleanor Roosevelt and her Journalist, Lorena Hickok” explores the hidden words used to divert
secret communication around the societal and geographical borders and boundaries of 19 th- and
20 th- century America. Tubman's unwritten words and Eleanor Roosevelt’s and Lorena Hickok’s
written (but inaccessible and/or destroyed) words passed through and influenced the Baltimore
landscape; however, these communicative routes remain absent from standard public histories.
Keywords: Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorena Hickok, communication, Baltimore
Resumen: “La comunicación clandestina de Baltimore: Palabras (no) escritas por Harriet
Tubman y Eleanor Roosevelt y su periodista, Lorena Hickok” explora las palabras escondidas
que se usaron para transmitir comunicaciones secretas a través de las barreras impuestas por la
sociedad y la geografía en los siglos 19 y 20 en Estados Unidos. Las palabras no escritas por
Eleanor Roosevelt y las palabras escritas (pero inaccesibles y/o destruidas) de Eleanor Roosevelt
y Lorena Hickok trascendieron e influenciaron el panorama de Baltimore; sin embargo, estas
rutas comunicativas permanecen ausentes en las historias públicas comunes.
Palabras clave: Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lorena Hickok, comunicación, Baltimore
摘要: 本文探索了隐藏的文字（hidden words)，该文字曾被用于转移19和20世纪围绕美国
社会边界和地理边界的秘密沟通。图伯曼（Tubman）留下的口头话语和埃莉诺·罗斯福及
其记者罗瑞纳·希科克写下的文字（但已无法获得或被销毁）影响了整个巴尔的摩。然而
，这些在标准公共历史中都不存在。
关键词：哈里特·图伯曼，埃莉诺·罗斯福，罗瑞纳·希科克，沟通，巴尔的摩
Readers may be surprised to find Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt (and her journalist,
Lorena Hickok) sharing geographical literacy, though their contributions to American history
surely group them together in the category of pivotal female societal achievers. Readers, too,
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