Search results
3 days ago · Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist and women's rights activist who had formerly been enslaved, stayed at Stanton's house [104] as, of course, did Anthony. [citation needed] Leading abolitionists opposed the AERA's drive for universal suffrage.
2 days ago · In this conversation, Georgia-born photographer Tyler Mitchell elucidates the fantastical dimensions of documentary photography. Mitchell’s oeuvre affirms a deep commitment to pleasure and play, and his exhibition, Idyllic Spaces at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, situates this commitment within the Southern imaginary.
2 days ago · But one volunteer in particular looms large in my mind because she loomed large in life: Sojourner Truth, one of the most powerful advocates for women’s rights in the nineteenth century. At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, she delivered what is now recognized as one of the most famous abolitionist and women’s rights speeches in American history, “Ain’t I a ...
5 days ago · Sojourner Truth became a national symbol for strong black women and all strong women. Advocated fiercely for abolition and women's suffrage in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
Oct 2, 2024 · This morning, the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument depicting Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was unveiled on Literary Walk, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary...
4 days ago · On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Colvin was motivated by her studies of African American history and the US Constitution at school, as well as the teachings of civil rights pioneers like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.
5 days ago · Rosa Parks was a Black civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man ignited the American civil rights movement. Because she played a leading role in the Montgomery bus boycott, she is called the ‘mother of the civil rights movement.’.
