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Sojourner Truth

NAME: Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth)

BIRTHDATE: 1797 (She was a Slave.)

In 1857, she sold her home in Northampton and bought one in Harmonia, Michigan (just west of Battle Creek), to live with this community.

In 1858, at a meeting in Silver Lake, Indiana, someone in the audience accused her of being a man (she was very tall, towering around six feet) so she opened her blouse to reveal her breasts.

In 1864 , She meet President Abraham Lincoln in October.

In 1870, she began campaigning for the federal government to provide former slaves with land in the new West.

DATE OF DEATH: November 26, 1883

-PLACE OF DEATH: Battle Creek, Michigan -PORTRAYED BY: Stephanie Tolliver -Sojourner Truth will Become the First Black Woman Honored with a Bust in the U.S. Capitol.. -Sojourner Truth has been posthumously honored in many ways over the years: a memorial stone in the Stone History Tower in Monument Park, downtown Battle Creek (1935); a new grave marker, by the Sojourner Truth Memorial Association (1946); a historical marker commemorating members of her family buried with her in the cemetery (1961); a portion of Michigan state highway M-66 designated the Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway (1976); induction into the national Woman's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York (1981); induction into the Michigan Woman's Hall of Fame in Lansing (1983); a commemorative postage stamp (1986); a Michigan Milestone Marker by the State Bar of Michigan for her contribution (three lawsuits she won) to the legal system (1987); a marker erected by the Battle Creek Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs (also 1987); a Mars probe named for her (1997); a community-wide, year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of her birth in Battle Creek in 1997, plus a larger-than-life statue of her by artist Tina Allen; and the First Black Woman Honored with a Bust in the U.S. Capitol (October, 2008)

Quote:The freed slave and activist who said ..Ain't I a Woman..

Quote: I did not run off, for I thought that wicked, but I walked off, believing that to be all right.

She was a rebel because she was a black woman fighting for slavery, Also not just fighting fight for slavery but fighting for womans rights.

This is a woman who fought for what she beleived in because she fought for slavery and freedom, She is a woman that ran for what she believed in and i have passion for that.