Sojourner Truth

Born: 1797 in New York, into slavery

Died: 1883

Birth name was Isabella Baumfree.

Abolitionist & women’s right’s activist who escaped slavery with her baby girl.

One of the first African Americans to take a white man to court, challenging her son being sold into slavery.

Her ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ speech at the Women’s Rights Convention in 1851 displayed her powerful voice in the women’s movement.

Helped recruit African Americans for the Union Army during the Civil War.

On “100 Most Significant Americans of All Time” Smithsonian list.

“It is the mind that makes the body.”