Organization to Launch Campaign for Sojourner Truth Honor at U.S. Capitol

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Michigan's own [Sojourner Truth], perhaps the most powerful and gifted African American female voice for women's rights in the 19th century, is not included in statue, which is commonly known as the Portrait Monument. The statue, sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, currently features the portrait busts of White suffragists Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. It was presented to the Capitol as a gift from the women of the United States by the National Women's Party, and was accepted on behalf of Congress by the Joint Committee on the Library on February 10, 1921. Five days later, the statue was unveiled coinciding with the 101st anniversary of the birth of Susan B. Anthony and was installed in the crypt of the U.S. Capitol until an act of Congress in 1996 relocated it to the Rotunda.

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Organization to Launch Campaign for Sojourner Truth Honor at U.S. Capitol

The Greater Detroit Congress of the National Congress of Black Women is asking for Michiganders' support to correct a shameful omission from a national monument celebrating...

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