Saturday July 4, 2020
53 days before the 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Right to Vote
Inspirational Woman for Today is:
Sojourner Truth
Another interesting fact…Born in New York as Isabella Baumfree who later changed her name to Sojourner Truth - Her activism for the abolitionist movement gained the attention of President Abraham Lincoln, who invited her to the White House in October 1864 and showed her a Bible given to him by African Americans in Baltimore. While Truth was in Washington, she put her courage and disdain for segregation on display by riding on whites-only streetcars. When the Civil War ended, she tried exhaustively to find jobs for freed blacks weighed down with poverty.
To learn more about this inspirational woman, go to Biography.com’s web page
