Harriet Tubman's back pay.

• Position: Americana - Brief Article

Harriet Tubman's service to the nation won her a spot in history and the nickname "Moses"--but not the military pension she deserves, her descendants say. Born a slave in Maryland in 1819, Tubman escaped in 1849, then guided hundreds of others to freedom through the Underground Railroad, the system set up by abolitionists to help slaves escape to free states or Canada. But even though she served as a Union Army spy and scout during the Civil War, Tubman never received a military pension and got only part of her second husband's military pension. "Every person who is in the service gets paid, and I think that she deserves it, too," says her greatgrandniece, Pauline Copes Johnson...