Sojourner+Truth

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 * Source: Abraham Lincoln: The War Years Vol. 2, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc 
 * Sojourner Truth was an American Slave, an abolitionist, and a woman's rights activist.
 * She created a speech called "Aint I A Woman?".
 * She was first sold around age 9.
 * When her second owner, John Neely started to beat her, she began to pray out loud, religously.
 * She was sold again for $105 by Martinus Schryver.
 * Soon after, (a year and a half to be exact), she was sold again to John Dumont who sexuallly abused her.
 * In 1815, Sojourner fell in love with a slave named Robert.
 * Sojourner had a dqaughter named Diana, around 1816, then married a slave named Thomas.
 * They had four children: Peter (1822), James (who died young), Elizabeth (1825), and Sophia (1826).
 * Sojourner was inspired to preach, with her religion getting stronger in her mind.
 * The Aint I a Woman speech: "That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place, and ain't I a woman? ... I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me -- 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? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me -- and ain't I woman?"
 * a memorial stone in the Stone History Tower in Monument Park, downtown Battle Creek (1935);
 * a new grave marker, by the Sojourner Truth Memorial Association (1946);
 * a historical marker commemorating members of her family buried with her in the cemetery (1961);
 * a portion of Michigan state highway M-66 designated the Sojourner Truth Memorial Highway (1976);
 * induction into the national Woman's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York (1981);
 * induction into the Michigan Woman's Hall of Fame in Lansing (1983);
 * a commemorative postage stamp (1986);
 * a Michigan Milestone Marker by the State Bar of Michigan for her contribution (three lawsuits she won) to the legal system (1987);
 * a commemorative postage stamp (1986);
 * a Michigan Milestone Marker by the State Bar of Michigan for her contribution (three lawsuits she won) to the legal system (1987);

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 1990- Rosa Parks has received numerous awards and honorary degrees including   http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html ;;;; When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on December 1, 1955, she was tired and weary from a long day of work. <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">
 * a marker erected by the Battle Creek Club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs (also 1987);
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">a Mars probe named for her (1997);
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">a community-wide, year-long celebration of the 200th anniversary of her birth in Battle Creek in 1997, plus a larger-than-life statue of her by artist Tina Allen; and
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">the First Black Woman Honored with a Bust in the U.S. Capitol (October, 2008)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">In 1858 in Indiana, someone in the audience accused her of being a man so she opened her blouse to reveal her breasts.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">In 1874, she developed ulcers on her legs.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">She died November 26, 1883- 86 years old.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">Born in Battle Creek, Michigan.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">She adopted the name Sojourner Truth, at age 46.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1852 - in August, attends abolitionist meeting in Salem, Ohio, where she confronts Frederick Douglass, asking "Is God gone?"
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> She was buried next to her grandson.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 5 foot 11 inches tall.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> **ROSA PARKS**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> Steele, Elaine. __Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development__. 2008. February 17, 2009 <http://www.rosaparks.org/bio.html>.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> Steele, Elaine. __Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development__. 2008. February 17, 2009 <http://www.rosaparks.org/bio.html>.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> **1932- rosa parks married raymond parks on december 18, 1932**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> **1934- received high school diploma**
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1955- december 1st, rosa was arrested
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> stands trial, found guilty, bus boycotting begins
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1977- husband raymond dies, and her only sibling slyvester also passes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1979- mother leona dies
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1987- Rosa Parks co-founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1989- First Pathways to Freedom ride
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;"> 1994- the rosa parks peace prize
 * the womens rights activest, "mother of civil rights movements"
 * made a historic turning point for the african american battle for civil rights