Seeking a monument to Truth

By Joshua M. Rinaldi, Freeman staff 09/24/2006

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton has reintroduced legislation to honor Ulster County-born abolitionist and women's suffragist Sojourner Truth.

Truth was born into slavery in the area that is now Esopus in 1797. She gained her freedom in 1826 and spent much of her adult life preaching against slavery and for human rights and woman's suffrage.

"It is past time that we honor a woman who, despite all the hardships she faced, was a tireless advocate for women's rights," Clinton said in a prepared statement.

Clinton received both praise and criticism for her call in 2005 to add Truth to the Portrait Monument of Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, all primary leaders in the fight for women's suffrage. The National Organization for Women donated the sculpture by Adelaide Johnson in 1921, the year women gained the right to vote.

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Not enough fuckin' nigger worship goin' on I guess???

-Jim