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Bookmark or Share- Sojourner Truth’s battle cry still resonates 170 years laterHISTORY & CULTURE. NEWS. Sojourner Truth’s battle cry still resonates 170 years later. Her famous “Ain’t I a woman?” speech helped launch the women's suffrage movement and symbolizes...
- Sojourner Truth - Quotes, Speech & Facts - Biography(1797-1883) Who Was Sojourner Truth? Sojourner Truth was an African American abolitionist and women's rights activist best-known for her speech on racial inequalities, "Ain't I a Woman?",...
- The Remarkable Untold Story of Sojourner TruthCivil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon’s life and faith is finally coming to light. A close-up of Sojourner Truth’s face in statue created by Woodrow Nash. An 1883 New...
- Biography: Sojourner Truth - National Women's History Museum1797-1883. Edited by Debra Michals, PhD | 2015. A formerly enslaved woman, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President Abraham Lincoln in 1864.
- Sojourner Truth - American Literature - Oxford BibliographiesIn 2009 Truth became the first black American woman with a bust in the US Capitol. Sojourner Truth did not read or write, even though she was included in a bibliography of American literature. Thus, no sources come directly from her hand, and every utterance attributed to her is mediated through another author.
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