Sojourner Truth Posters, Books, Video, Links for Learning

	• SOJOURNER TRUTH POSTERS Celebrate Black History Month
		Images of Labor - Sojourner Truth Wall Poster available at- Art.com AllPosters.com • Images of Labor posters
	caption: “Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted. And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well – And ain’t I a woman?” Speech at Women’s Rights Convention, 1851
	Sojourner Truth Great Black Americans - Sojourner Truth • more Great Black Americans posters
	Sojourner Truth, Poster Sojourner Truth was appointed to work with a physician at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington in 1865. She nursed African-American soldiers and taught others how to change bandages, wash wounds and make beds. • more nursing posters
		Pioneers of Women’s Rights Movement- Sojourner Truth Wall Poster “I have been forty years a slave and forty years free, and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.” available at- Art.com AllPosters.com
	• Women’s Rights Movement poster
	Sojourner Truth- Black History Biographical Timeline Fine Art Poster "I was to travel up and down the land, showing people their sins, and being a sign unto them." Sojourner Truth was an outspoken advocate of women's rights and black freedom. A riveting speaker and preacher, she made a lasting impression everywhere she spoke. During her legendary life, she challenged injustice wherever she saw it. Sojourner Truth was one of the first people in the country to link the oppression of black slaves with the oppression of women. • more Black History Biographical Timeline posters
		available at- Art.com AllPosters.com
		Women Who Dared Poster II available at- AllPosters.com Art.com • Other Famous Women in this poster
		American Women Composite Poster AllPosters.com Art.com • who is in the poster?
		The Underground Railroad Map Wall Poster available at- Art.com AllPosters.com Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Levi Coffin
		The Woman I Am Art Print available at- AllPosters.com Art.com Shirley Chisholm Rosa Parks Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman
		14 Leaders Art Print available at- AllPosters.com Art.com • who is in this poster? Mary McLeod Bethune George Washington Carver W. E. B. duBois Frederick Douglass Martin Luther King Thurgood Marshall Elijah Muhammad Adam Clayton Powell Sojourner Truth Harriet Tubman Booker T. Washington Malcolm X
		Civil Rights 1865 - 1920 Poster available at- AllPosters.com Art.com
	• more Civil Rights History posters
	• Famous Women posters • more Black History posters

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.” Sojourner Truth, c. 1797, New York

Sojourner Truth Biography

Sojourner Truth was born about 1797 in New York to slaves named James and Betsey and given the name Isabella. As a child she had several masters and her siblings were sold away.

Isabella suffered through the indignities of slavery - a forced “marriage” and the selling away of her children - and experienced a deep spiritual faith in God. Surviving and overcoming her enslavement, she heeded the call of God to a new name, Sojourner Truth, and became a travelling preacher.

Sojourner Truth, armed with her commanding presence - she was six feet tall - spoke out for women’s rights and the abolition of slavery. She was often challenged when she proclaimed a woman could do any job a man could do. To silence her critics who thought she was a man dressed as a woman - she would open her blouse and show her breasts.

Sojourner Truth could not read or write but in 1850 her dictated memoirs were published as The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave. She became a well known speaker at anti-slavery and woman’s rights lectures and in 1851 she delivered her best know speech ‘Ain’t I A Woman?’ at the Women’s Rights Convention.

In 1857 Sojourner Truth moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, possibly to work with Quakers who had set up a station on the Underground Railway.

During the Civil War Sojourner Truth lived in Washington, DC, raising funds for Black Union soldiers and returned to Battle Creek to continue her battles for women’s rights. She actively worked for the election of U. S. Grant and attmepted to vote in the 1872 election.

Sojourner Truth died in Battle Creek, Michigan on November 26, 1883.

Books, video about Sojourner Truth.

Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I A Woman by Pat McKissick - a particularly fine job relating the major incidents in Truth’s life and provide brief biographical sketches of the many people she knew and worked with. Ages 9-12

Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her ‘Book of Life’: Also, a memo -- by Olive Gilbert - see above in bio text.

Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol - an absorbing and enlightening study of the well-known feminist and antislavery activist that proposes a few unsettling alterations to the record.

My Soul is a Witness: African American Women’s Spirituality - anthology of poems, stories, and personal narratives by such writers as Maya Angelou and Alice Walker are witness to ways the Spirit expresses itself in the lives of African-American women.

LINKS FOR LEARNING : SOJOURNER TRUTH

Sojourner Truth Institute-
Battle Creek, MI
Sojourner Truth -
Florence, Northampton MA
Sojourner Truth- ThinkQuest Site
Sojourner Truth, The Libyan Sibyl by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Narrative of Sojourner Truth;
A Celebration of Women Writer’s
Modern History Sourcebook:
Sojourner Truth: Ain’t I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth:
Classroom Issues and Strategies