Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was one of the best-known abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born a slave in New York in approximately 1797, she was freed in 1828.
Although Sojourner Truth never learned to read or write, she dictated this autobiography to Olive Gilbert, a white abolitionist.
The Sojourner Truth Institute of Battle Creek, MI, has a terrific collection of resources for students of all grade levels.
In 1843, Sojourner Truth moved to Massachusetts where she lived in and near Florence for eight years, and where she now has a memorial statue.
Sojourner Truth was born in Ulster County, upstate New York at the end of the eighteenth century.
This biographical vignette is published by Women in History, a non-profit project that brings history to life with live performances of historical monologues and online biographies.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision supporting school integration, the Little Rock, Arkansas School Board agreed to integrate by the 1957/1958 school year.
"In 1957, nine brave, black students pioneered a path for thousands of future scholars in the halls of this great school. September 25, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of the integration of Central High."
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas has an excellent, illustrated article on the Little Rock Nine, with links to additional articles on the desegregation of Central High, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, and the Lost Year.
Although it was written ten years ago to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of " One of America's Most Important Civil Rights Events," the site is still valuable today.
PBSKids presents a single-page overview of school desegregation and the civil rights movement of the fifties.
Lisa Cozzens was a Brown University undergraduate when she started this Black History website in 1998.
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