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The United Order of Tents, one of the oldest lodges for African-American women in the country, was founded in Norfolk. It was secretly organized by two slave women, Annetta M. Lane and Harriet R. Taylor; and two abolitionist, Joliffe Union and Joshua R. Giddings as a part of the underground railway, assisting slaves to escape to the north. It was formally organized and publicly recognized after the end of the Civil War.
==External links / References==
* [http://www.npl.lib.va.us/absoluteig/gallery.asp?action=viewimage&imageid=216&text=&categoryid=103&box=&shownew=] Norfolk Public Library article
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(Via Wikipedia – New pages [en].)