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Sojourner Truth: Her Legacy in Today’s Struggles
A formerly enslaved woman turned abolitionist and women’s rights ... after their ancestors tried burying them. But if ...
The facts of Sojourner Truth’s life are inspiring: Born into slavery in the late 1790s, she became an influential abolitionist and Pentecostal preacher, transfixing audiences from the mid 1840s ...
Inspired by her deep faith, she changed her name to Sojourner Truth. A fierce abolitionist and advocate for female equality, Truth delivered her stirring “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the 1851 ...
As we celebrate Women's History Month, we're honoring the life and legacy of Sojourner Truth. She was born enslaved and ...
Freed from slavery in 1827, Sojourner Truth became an eloquent speaker not only for abolition, but for women's rights as well. Born in bondage to the Hardenberghs, an affluent Dutch family in the ...
New legislation has been introduced in Lansing to rename the Battle Creek Post Office after an American abolitionist, Sojourner Truth. Lawmakers are looking to change the name to the Sojourner ...
From Slavery to Freedom,” a spring break kick-off event for youth and families, is set for Thursday, April 10, according to an announcement. The ...
You’re Dead to Me - Sojourner Truth: American abolitionist, suffragist, preacherYou’re Dead to Me - Sojourner Truth: American abolitionist, suffragist, preacher ...
The Rhinebeck Theatre Society is resurrecting Emilia Bassano Lanier's story through Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s Olivier ...
Johnson argued that Legins-Costley "championed racial justice as effectively as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Rosa Parks." Legins-Costley was born in 1813 in Kaskaskia, then the capital of ...