Little by little, I began to form a mission for myself. I was going to be like Harriet Tubman and go North to liberate my people. I admired Harriet Tubman more than anyone else I read about - her courage, the pistol she wore, the fact that she never lost a passenger on the Underground Railroad. I wasn't going to go to Alabama State College, where they taught you how to teach school, but didn't teach you how to get your freedom.