sojourner truth
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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Women's rights activist
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Escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826
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Became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man
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Gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843
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"Ain't I a Woman?", was delivered in 1851 at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
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During the Civil War, Truth helped recruit black troops for the Union Army
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Tried unsuccessfully to secure land grants from the federal government for former slaves
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Truth was one of the ten or twelve children
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Employed by the National Freedman's Relief Association in Washington, D.C.
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She worked diligently to improve conditions for African-Americans
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In 1865 she met President Abraham Lincoln
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Credited with writing a song, "The Valiant Soldiers", for the 1st Michigan Colored Regiment
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In 1867, Truth moved from Harmonia to Battle Creek
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In 1868, she traveled to western New York and visited with Amy Post
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While in Washington, D.C., she had a meeting with President Ulysses S. Grant
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She returned to Battle Creek and tried to vote in the presidential election, but was turned away at the polling place
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Died November 26, 1883 in Battle Creek, MI
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