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Women's Suffrage Museum Events & Cultural Center

Mission statement for Suffrage Coalition Inc.’s Project: Women’s Suffrage Museum – Events & Culture Center - Locate and preserve the epic history of the movement that brought democracy to the other half of our citizens. Use accurate, immersive storytelling to inspire future generations to value their rights and faithfully perform their duties as citizens.

Sojourner Truth (c.1797-1883) NY

Sojourner Truth
  • Sojourner Truth, a former slave, brought a crucial persecutive to the women’s rights movement, demanding “not less discrimination, but no discrimination”.
  • Worked alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, ensuring that the fight for women’s suffrage included the voices of the Black women.
  • After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first Black woman to win such a case against a White man.

Quotes:

“I will not allow my life’s light to be determined by the darkness around me.”

 

“I’m not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star”

 

“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right again.”