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Sojourner Truth was born into slavery in New York with the original name of Isabella Baumfree.

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Sojourner escaped slavery with her infant daughter and got freedom but had to leave the rest of her children behind.

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She was the first black woman to win a case against a white man when she went to court to get her son back.

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Sojourner changed her original slave name from Isabella Baumfree to her free name, Sojourner Truth.

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Sojourner joined an abolitionist organization called Northampton Association of Education and Industry. She met leading abolitionists like Fredrick Douglass and became an abolitionist and equal human rights activist as well.

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At the Ohio Women's Rights Convention she delivered the speech "Ain't I a Woman" which became a widely known speech during the Civil War.

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She sold all her property and moved to Michigan where she rejoined former anti-slavery activists and she joined the Progressive Friends who were main abolitionists in Michigan.

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Truth started to work in Washington D.C. for the National Freedman's Relief Association where she fought to improve the conditions for African-Americans.

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Sojourner was employed at the Freedman's Hospital in Washington and rode in streetcars to help stop segregation.

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Sojourner Truth was cared for by her two daughters for the last few years of her life until she died in her Battle Creek home and many life size statues were made in her honor.