Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to study alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the Underground Railroad (the route taken by escaping slaves before the end of the Civil War). Requires such study to consider: (1) establishment of a new unit within the national park system; and (2) various appropriate designations for those routes and sites used by the Underground Railroad, and alternate means to link such sites, including those in Canada and Mexico.
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to publish an interpretive handbook on the Underground Railroad in the larger context of American antebellum society (including the history of slavery and abolitionism).
Directs the Secretary to establish the Underground Railroad Advisory Committee.
Authorizes appropriations.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Department of the Interior, and Office of Management and Budget.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 101-1147.
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