Tubman Quadrangle (Harriet Tubman Quadrangle)

The Harriet Tubman Quadrangle (The Quad) at Howard University is comprised of five residence halls for women: Baldwin Hall, Crandall Hall, Frazier Hall, Truth Hall, and Wheatley Halls. Together, the buildings have single and double rooms. They also have numerous amenities, including a fitness center, lounge area, study rooms, and communal kitchens.

About the Buildings' Names

• Harriet Tubman Quadrangle is named after the legendary freedom fighter herself, Harriet Tubman. Called the "Black Moses," because she led her people to freedom. Tubman escaped life as a slave by escaping a plantation in Maryland and using the stars to make her way to the free state of Pennsylvania. Once free herself, she made 13 more trips to the slave states to free others as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. Eventually, she would also serve as a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, and helped lead the emancipated slave soldiers of the Second South Carolina Infantry in an assault on plantations along the Combahee River that freed more than 700 enslaved people.
• Baldwin Hall, part of the Harriet Tubman Quadrangle, is named after prolific writer James Baldwin, whose commentary on race, bigotry, and society made him one of the most influential novelists of the twentieth centry.
• Truth Hall is named after Sojourner Truth, a profound speaker born into slavery whose oratory on topics including abolition and civil and women's rights earned her international acclaim.
• Wheatley Hall is named after famed poet Phillis Wheatley, the third American woman in history to publish a book of poems, which still inspire writers to this day. Born into slavery and later emancipated, she was a powerful voice for freedom.
• Crandall Hall is named for Prudence Crandall, who opened the first school for Black girls in New Englanc.
• Frazier Hall is named for Julia Caldwell Frazier, a pioneering Black educator who was the third Black woman to graduate from Howard University and who became a community activist in Texas, public school teacher, and the one first Black woman to serve as a high school principal in Dallas.

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