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Sojourner Truth

1797 - 1883

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Sojourner Truth (; born Isabella Bomefree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. 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. She gave herself the name Sojourner Truth in 1843 after she became convinced that God had called her to leave the city and go into the countryside "testifying to the hope that was in her." Her best-known speech was delivered extemporaneously, in 1851, at the Ohio Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sojourner Truth is the 200th most popular social activist (down from 174th in 2019), the 2,286th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,590th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sojourner Truth ranks 200 out of 840. Before her are Kartini, Vladimir Bukovsky, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Andrés Bonifacio, Subcomandante Marcos, and Tawakkol Karman. After her are Tiradentes, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Aliya Moldagulova, Hrant Dink, David Sassoon, and Lalla Fatma N'Soumer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1797, Sojourner Truth ranks 32. Before her are Manuela Sáenz, James Ferguson, Ida Laura Pfeiffer, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and Prince Frederick of the Netherlands. After her are Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg, Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier, Giuditta Pasta, Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant, Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, and Kamehameha II. Among people deceased in 1883, Sojourner Truth ranks 21. Before her are Thomas Mayne Reid, Pertevniyal Sultan, Arnold Toynbee, Édouard Roche, Ranavalona II, and Prince Charles of Prussia. After her are Pierre Auguste Cot, Alexander Gorchakov, Peter Cooper, Friedrich von Flotow, Hendrik Conscience, and Franz Doppler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sojourner Truth ranks 2,286 out of 20,380. Before her are Jan-Michael Vincent (1944), Chris Brown (1989), Frank Borzage (1894), Abner Doubleday (1819), Johnny Ramone (1948), and Steve Vai (1960). After her are Elmer Bernstein (1922), Stanley Donen (1924), Solomon Northup (1808), Hetty Green (1834), John Ratcliffe (1965), and Joseph Augustus Zarelli (1953).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Sojourner Truth ranks 27. Before her are Cesar Chavez (1927), George Stinney (1929), Frances Willard (1839), David Lane (1938), Frederick Douglass (1818), and Billy Milligan (1955). After her are Fred Phelps (1929), Martin Luther King Sr. (1899), Gloria Steinem (1934), Edward Snowden (1983), Emmett Till (1941), and Coretta Scott King (1927).

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