Moral courage is often revealed in the willingness to speak truth when silence would be safer. Few embodied this more powerfully than Sojourner Truth.
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I direct Dust of Egypt: The #SojournerTruth Story thru 3/29 - The Sheen Center NYC. Ticket link: sheencenter.app.getcuebox.com/o/MVQSLDZL/s... #addtoBlackSky #Blacksky #BlackWomen #WomensHistoryMonth #Theatre #BlackTheater
Continuing to listen to David Levering Lewis's riveting biography of Du Bois.
In today's chapter, Lewis suggested that Du Bois combined the voices of Sojourner Truth and Schopenhauer and I have not been able to think straight since.
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Plaque on stone column with the words “I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.” —Sojourner Truth
Statue of Sojourner Truth in the plaza bearing her name, Akron OH.
A relevant message from #SojournerTruth:
"You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slaveholder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.” #SojournerTruth #BlackHistoryMonth #blackresistance
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Join public historian Tom Goldscheider of the David Ruggles Center at the Jones Library in Amherst #WesternMass to learn about Sojourner Truth’s formative years in Northampton and her growth as an #abolitionist. Discover how local #history and community helped shape her activism. #sojournertruth
NEW EPISODE: The case that made sojourner truth: How a formerly enslaved woman beat the establishment
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Photograph of the life size statue of Sojourner Truth by artist Woodrow Nash installed at the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio. Photo: Matt Fox
Photograph of the entrance to the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza in downtown Akron, Ohio. At the entrance is a stone wall placed on about a 30 degree angle to the street with the word TRUTH cut from Cor-ten steel mounted on it. Photo: Matt Fox
Photograph of a colorful mural created by artist Derin Fletcher in the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza. The mural depicts 2 African American women, one of whom may be Sojourner Truth (or a reference to Truth) because she is wearing the rectangular glasses the famous abolitionist and women's rights leader wore. Also depicted are floral motifs based on Truth’s family roots in Ghana. Photo: Matt Fox
Photograph of a relief sculpture in steel mounted on a wall in the Sojourner Truth Legacy Plaza in downtown Akron. The sculpture depicts the Impala Lily, the national flower of Ghana, ancestral home of Truth's father. Photo: Matt Fox
🧵 We've been celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by highlighting some of the Black-owned businesses making history in #downtownAkron. Today, we're making a slight detour to feature the remarkable #SojournerTruth Legacy Plaza, at 37 N. High St. bit.ly/SojournerTru... 1/3
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For a toddler, she ATE THIS UP! Here she is as the great #SojournerTruth, #MadamCJWalker, and #RosaParks
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A bronze statue of Sojourner Truth, an African American woman wearing glasses, a bonnet, and period clothing from the 1800s. Green trees are blurred in the background. White text with black outline at the top reads: "THERE ARE TWO THINGS I'VE GOT A RIGHT TO, AND THESE ARE, DEATH OR LIBERTY – ONE OR THE OTHER I MEAN TO HAVE. NO ONE WILL TAKE ME BACK ALIVE; I SHALL FIGHT FOR MY LIBERTY, AND WHEN THE TIME HAS COME FOR ME TO GO, THE LORD WILL LET THEM KILL ME." At the bottom, white text reads "SOJOURNER TRUTH". The Godless Engineer (GE) logo appears faintly on the left side.
The BIPOC community is still fighting for liberty, and some are still being killed for seeking it.
#Trump wants to secure liberty for the Racists, Bigots, and the Pedophiles. Because that is who he is.
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"On May 29, 1851, a woman asked to address the attendees of the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron. She cut a striking figure, close to six feet tall even without her crisp bonnet. She was more than likely the only Black person in the room."
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#BirthdateUnknown, c. 1797 (?): #SojournerTruth.. #AfricanAmericans #BlackAmericans #Abolitionists #Author #GreatAmericans #WomensRightsActivists #CivilRightsActivists #AfricanAmericans #BlackPeople #BlackSky
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Challenge: What Do You Know About the Intersection of Women & Black History?: She said: Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. A. Oprah WinfreyB. Marian Wright EdelmanC. Maya AngelouD. Eleanor RooseveltE. Michelle… #Skol #SojournerTruth #Truthbridge #HarrietTubman #Tubmanbridge
#SojournerTruth died #OnThisDay in 1883, one of the great African American freedom fighters in American history; the former slave worked tirelessly for the abolition of #slavery & for women's rights & prison reform; we need truth tellers like her now more than ever~!
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#SojournerTruth died on Nov. 26, 1883. Read more about her in this @smithsonianmag.bsky.social story, shared by @admirablewomen.bsky.social. Discover more #BlackHistory in this @flipboard.com #SurfSocial feed.
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Truth sold cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards, such as this one, to raise money for her work. The text above her name reads "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance." In this image, she is seated, knitting, wearing a shawl and bonnet, and wire-rimmed glasses. By Adam Cuerden - Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Object Number 2013.207.1, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115455214
Today in #LaborHistory 11/26/1883: Abolitionist, women’s rights activist #SojournerTruth died. 1851, gave her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech. During #CivilWar, she recruited black soldiers.
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“I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.”
✒ #SojournerTruth, African-American abolitionist, #CivilRights campaigner, author, and feminist, #DOTD 26 November 1883.
The Architects of Enough are marching on. Peace is Here (daily) Podcast:
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Ep 124 #SojournerTruth
Ep 125 #EleanorRoosevelt
Ep 126 #ArundahtiRoy
Ep127 #ToniCadeBambari
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From enslaved to champion of women’s rights. ✨ Sojourner Truth’s courage, faith, and unshakable voice against injustice made history and continues to inspire us today. Drop a ✊🏾 to honor her legacy.
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OHIO HISTORICAL MARKER SITE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH'S SPEECH ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS On this site on May 29. 1851, Sojourner Truth. a1 former slave, gave her world famous "And Aint I a Woman?" speech, recalling the hardships she had endured. Active in both the Abolitionist and Women's Rights Movements, she electrified an audience of women and men who had come to the Universalist Stone Church for a two-day Women's Rights Convention. AKRON WOMEN'S ALLIANCE. ALPHA PHI ALPHA, THE SUMMIT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, "THE DINNER PARTY" BOARD. AND THE, OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Former Site if The Universalist Stone Church.
More pictures of #SojournerTruthPlaza (spelled correctly this time) this tribute to #SojournerTruth opened on May 29th 2024, on the site where she made her #AintIAWoman speech during Women's Convention in #AkronOH, in May 29th 1851.
Took a walk around the #SojournerTruthPlaza in #AkronOh. The site where she made her "ain't I a woman" speech.
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