1 Jan 1797 Jahr - Sojourner Truth

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Advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights Sojourner Truth was born as Isabella Bomfree in Ulster County, New York.
In 1827, Truth ran away with her infant Sophia to a nearby abolitionist family who bought her freedom for twenty dollars. Truth moved to New York City in 1828 and began working for a local minister. Truth declared that the Spirit called on her to speak the truth, renaming herself Sojourner Truth in 1843. In 1844, Truth joined the "Northhampton Association of Education and Industry", where she would meet other notable abolitionists and begin to earn a reputation as an activist herself. President Abraham Lincoln invited Sojourner Truth to the White House on October 1, 1864, honoring her activist work and showing her a Bible given to him by African Americans in Baltimore.
While in Washington, Truth protested segregation by riding on whites-only streetcars. Having spent her later years in Battle Creek, Michigan, where some of her daughters lived, Truth died at home on November 26, 1883. Engraved on her tombstone are the words, “Is God Dead?”, a question she once asked a despondent Frederick Douglass to remind him to have faith.

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