A Warning From 1851 To Those Who Deny Human Rights.

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4. Another version on Capitol Hill in 2009. Look at who's there...

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Uploaded on Apr 29, 2009

Cicely Tyson performs Sojourner Truth's "Ain't that a woman?"

First Lady Michelle Obama joined House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other lawmakers and dignitaries on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to unveil a bust of Sojourner Truth, the 19th-century slave turned abolitionist who was also a fiery advocate for womens rights.

I wonder if students are being taught about her now?

She was a heroic figure in my public school textbooks, along with Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, abolitionists, the Underground Railway and the suffragettes.

How did we get to this in the USA, that people don't know the obvious about human rights anymore?