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Akron's Sojourner Truth Project and Legacy Plaza has made its way into the national spotlight as a project that highlights Women's History Month, a commemoration held in March every year.
Hundreds gathered in an Ohio city on Wednesday to unveil a plaza and statue dedicated to abolitionist Sojourner Truth ... shows Truth standing tall, holding a book. The monument sits on top ...
AKRON, Ohio (WOIO) - A plaza in honor of Sojourner Truth was unveiled Thursday, 173 years after her iconic ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech. The plaza, in the same spot where the speech was ...
The team behind the Caldecott Honor book Duke Ellington offers a rousing ... poetic prose is anything but hushed as it follows Sojourner Truth's remarkable life. When her master failed to honor ...
SAN DIEGO, C.A. — Barbara Allen, sixth great-granddaughter of Sojourner Truth ... including a framed poster of Truth along with several books, including Truth’s narrative and a book about ...
A statue of women’s rights pioneer Sojourner Truth sits in the ... artist and Akron native Woodrow Nash, shows Truth standing tall, holding a book. The monument sits on top of an impala lily ...
The red fabric on the chair matches the upholstery in the concert hall’s seats below the portrait, and on the table next to her, a copy of her book “Narrative of Sojourner Truth.” ...
In 1850, William Lloyd Garrison privately published her book, "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: a Northern Slave." A year later, Truth gave her famed "Ain't I a woman?" speech at the Ohio Women's ...