In 1995 a group of Battle Creek citizens organized the Sojourner Truth 200th Anniversary Committee to prepare for the bicentennial of Truth's birth in 1997. After a year-long series of artistic and educational programs and special events, the Committ
What was Sojourner Truth like as a person? Maybe that can best be understood through friends and observers of the freed slave who became a national leader in the fight for emancipation and women's rights. Truth called Battle Creek, Mich., home the la
Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Bomefree (later spelled Baumfree) about 1797 at Hurley, Ulster County, New York. Her parents were James and Betsy, slaves of Colonel Hardenbergh. Upon the Colonel’s death, their ownership passed to his son, Charles Harden
