Other honors and commemorations
Tubman is commemorated together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, and Sojourner Truth in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on July 20.The calendar of saints of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America remembers Tubman and Sojurner Truth on March 10. Since 2003, the state of New York has also commemorated Tubman on March 10, although the day is not a legal holiday.
Numerous structures, organizations, and other entities have been named in Tubman's honor. These include dozens of schools, streets and highways in several states,[213] and various church groups, social organizations, and government agencies.
In 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship ever named for a black woman.[215] An asteroid, (241528) Tubman, was named after her in 2014.
A section of the Wyman Park Dell in Baltimore, Maryland was renamed Harriet Tubman Grove in March 2018; the grove was previously the site of two statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, both of which were among four statues removed from the park in August 2017.
Tubman was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973,[218] and into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1985.
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