Freedom Center iPhone/iPod App
The new iPod tour at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will provide visitors with a unique interactive experience; enhancing the exhibits, the photographs, and the stories to create a life changing journey for all ages. Visitors will be able to hear accounts of enslaved people, Underground Railroad conductors, founding fathers, and even slave traders, while viewing additional photographs, videos, and maps on the iPod screen that will further bring to life the poignant and powerful story that is the struggle for freedom.
Travelling through time, visitors will meet the heroes of the Underground Railroad such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Levi Coffin, and many others, and their compelling stories are told through the many voices of history. The overall narration is delivered by Judy Richardson, a civil rights activist and award winning producer. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she co-edited Hands of the Freedom Plow,a collection of writings about their experiences during the Southern Freedom Movement in the early 1960's. Ms. Richardson is also the associate producer of the award-winning PBS series Eyes on the Prize,as well as co-producer on Malcolm X: Make it Plain, a Peabody Award winning special on the PBS program American Experience. Judy Richardson has championed women's rights as well as civil rights, and her passion and experience bring an emotionally appealing component to the iPod experience.
The Freedom Center engaged the talents of Audissey Media in Boston, Massachusetts to create this new audio tour experience. The people at Audissey worked tirelessly with the Freedom Center's Interpretive Services Department, led by Interpretive Services Manager Richard Cooper, to ensure that the quality of the tour experience will be of the highest standard as well as ensuring the accuracy of the narrative in both the audio and visual sense. Their efforts have paid off with this amazing new interactive experience that will be available at the App Store as well as at the Freedom Center.
The struggle for freedom has changed the lives of millions, and it has generated courage and sacrifice in people who have become heroes simply because of their desire to make a difference in the world, both past and present. The new iPod tour will enhance the visitor experience to the Freedom Center, and it very well could inspire a whole new generation of "Freedom Conductors" who can make a difference for the cause of freedom.
