Today the Search Engine Google is Celebrating
Sojourner Truth with Google Doodle in United
States and few other countries.
Today’s Doodle by Philadelphia-based guest
artist Loveis Wise kicks off Black History
Month by celebrating Sojourner Truth, a powerful
advocate for justice and equality in the United
States of America during the 19th century.
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist
and women's rights activist.
Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill,
Ulster County, New York, but escaped with
her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
After going to court to recover her son in
1828, she became the first black woman to
win such a case against a white man.
She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth
in 1843 after she became convinced that God
had called her to leave the city and go into
the countryside "testifying the hope that
was in her.Her best-known speech was delivered
extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's
Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio.
The speech became widely known during the
Civil War by the title "Ain't I a Woman.
Born an enslaved person in Ulster County,
New York around 1797, Isabella Baumfree endured
the horrors of the American slave trade—as
well as seeing her children sold into servitude.
Despite the hardships she faced, she went
on to win her freedom, changing her name to
Sojourner Truth, and starting a new life as
a traveling and prominent preacher, abolitionist,
and suffragist.
During her travels, Truth met activists William
Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, who
encouraged her to speak out against the evils
of slavery.
She published a memoir in 1850, which earned
her widespread acclaim as an author and speaker.
She was even invited to meet with Abraham
Lincoln in the White House.
In her autobiography, Sojourner Truth recounted
the day she escaped with her infant daughter,
forced to leave her other children behind.
Sojourner Truth's most famous speech
Ain't I a Woman is the name given to a speech,
delivered extemporaneously, by Sojourner Truth,
(1797–1883), born into slavery in New York
State.
Some time after gaining her freedom in 1827,
she became a well known anti-slavery speaker.
In 2014, Truth was included in Smithsonian
magazine's list of the "100 Most Significant
Americans of All Time.
Truth’s memory and legacy continues to this
day.
Most recently, the US Treasury announced that
she will be featured on the nation’s ten
dollar bill along with other suffragists.
The design for the new bill will be unveiled
in 2020 to commemorate the 100th anniversary
of the 19th Amendment, granting women the
right to vote.
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