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  1. Sojourner Truth seized the moment and jumped aboard. The angry conductor threatened to eject her. She invoked her Northern origins and political acumen in reply.

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  2. Feb 22, 2024 · How to Separate Fact From Myth in the Extraordinary Story of Sojourner Truth. Two historians tell us why the pioneering 19th-century feminist, suffragist and abolitionist’s legacy has so ...

  3. Smollett played Rosalee, a shy house slave working on a plantation in 1857. [20] She portrayed Black Canary in the 2020 film Birds of Prey, [21] [22] and Letitia "Leti" Lewis in the 2020 HBO series Lovecraft Country. [23] In August 2021, it was revealed that Smollett will star in a solo Black Canary Movie from Warner Bros. and DC Films at HBO ...

  4. Sep 13, 2021 · From meeting Nelson Mandela to trudging through sweltering swamps in corsets, here's some facts about actor and activist Jurnee Smollett you might not know.

  5. Aug 14, 2020 · Jurnee Smollett, the actress who plays her, isnt much different when it comes to speaking truth to power. Smollett stars in Lovecraft Country as the feisty, self-assured (and quite chic...

  6. May 26, 2022 · Smollett’s brother Jojo thinks “Jurnee” might be a play on Sojourner Truth, the 19th-century abolitionist, but Smollett’s mother has a different story.

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  8. This chapter highlights the religious and phenomenological foundations of Sojourner Truth’s public life. By nearly all accounts, Truth had a palpable presence. People were deeply moved by what she said and how she said it. As one eyewitness put it, words could not capture her; a “Daguerrian act” was needed.