#sojourner truth
DECEMBER 12 - SOJOURNER TRUTH
Sojourner Truth,born Isabella (“Bell”) Baumfree, was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son, in 1828 she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843. Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. The speech became widely known during the Civil War by the title “Ain’t I a Woman?,” a variation of the original speech re-written by someone else using a stereotypical Southern dialect; whereas Sojourner Truth was from New York and grew up speaking Dutch as her first language.
During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army; after the war, she tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves.
In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian magazine’s list of the “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time”.
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Ain’t I a Woman?
“Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothin’ to do wid Him.”
Sojourner Truth, ex-escrava, líder abolicionista novaiorquina e ativista dos direitos das mulheres
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DARCY GRIMALDO GRIGSBY - ENDURING TRUTHS
DARCY GRIMALDO GRIGSBY - ENDURING TRUTHS
I’m very glad that I was able to help author Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby with her book Enduring Truths - Sojourner’s Shadows and Substance, a book about African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist Sojourner Truth(check out previous post).
Featuring the largest collection of Truth’s photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and herself. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby establishes a range of important contexts for Truth’s portraits, including the strategic role of photography and copyright for an illiterate former slave; the shared politics of Truth’s cartes de visite and federal banknotes, which were both created to fund the Union cause; and the ways that photochemical limitations complicated the portrayal of different skin tones. Insightful and powerful, Enduring Truths shows how Truth made her photographic portrait worth money in order to end slavery—and also became the strategic author of her public self. (read more)
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4 Black Philosophers to Teach Year-Round
Weaving philosophy lessons into your curriculum can tease out bigger questions about identity, human rights, and artistic expression.
When Liam Kofi Bright was five years old, he spent a long time obsessing over the difference between a big number and a small number. Eventually, Bright decided that anything over four was big and anything below four was not. When his mom asked him, “What about four?” he started crying.
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![eternallybeautifullyblack: The African-American Suffragists History Forgot by Lynn Yaeger [T]hough](https://64.media.tumblr.com/04d1fb06dd46f43a04c58d11fc04289a/tumblr_nwq9ah9cFi1rkianko1_1280.jpg "eternallybeautifullyblack: The African-American Suffragists History Forgot by Lynn Yaeger [T]hough")
The African-American Suffragists History Forgot
by Lynn Yaeger
[T]hough we may have vague notions of the American women who fought so heroically for the ballot on this side of the Atlantic, they are, in our minds, in our imaginations, in the photographs and first-person narratives that have come down to us, uniformly white people.
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“Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ‘cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.”
SOJOURNER TRUTH
LAST WEEK OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Day 6 of 7 Black activists to celebrate
SOJOURNER TRUTH:
Truth was born into slaverly, serving several masters throughout New York before escaping to freedom in 1826.
Truth had 5 children and when she escaped she could only take 1 because the others were still legally bounded to her slave owner.
After the New York Anti-Slavery Law was passed Truth filed a lawsuit to get her 5 year old son and won her case regaining custody of her son, making her the first black woman to sue a white man in a United States court.
After Truth became a passionate Christian.
Truth joined an abolitionist organization where she met leading abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass.
This is where she launched her career as an equal rights activist.
Truth gave a speech where she spoke about equal rights for black women. In speech she asked the rhetorical question, “Ain’t I A Woman?”, this speech went on to become her most famous.
Truth helped recruit black soldiers during the Civil War.
Her activism for the abolitionist movement gained attention of President Lincoln, who invited her to the White House in 1864.
Later in life Truth continued to speak out on discrimination.
Truth legacy as a black women fighting for equality lives on.
THANK YOU SOJOURNER TRUTH
