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DE Annual Ride for Justice
June 11, 2022 @ 7:30 am
A family-friendly DE Ride for Justice offers three routes from 5 miles, 10 miles, 28 miles, and 84.6 miles, a distance chosen in memory of the final 8 minutes and 46 seconds of George Floyd’s life—and in recognition of the nationwide movement for justice that emerged as a result.
The rides will traverse a landscape suffused with the spirit of Delaware justice-seekers. All rides begin in Delaware City, 54 Clinton Street, 19706, near Polktown, one of the first Free Black communities in DE and where Black Delawareans could legally own property.
Continuing through the marshes and rolling fields of New Castle and Kent Counties, the longer routes pause at Appoquinimink Friends Meeting house, a hub of Underground Railroad activity, which saw Harriet Tubman among others, risking their livelihoods, freedom and lives in the quest for justice.
The 84.6 mile course continues to the Old State House in Dover, through Blackbird Forest – a landscape that Harriet Tubman traversed as she guided self–emancipators to freedom.