Sojourner Truth - Cultural References

Cultural References

• 1862—William Wetmore Story's statue, "The Libyan Sibyl", inspired by Sojourner Truth, won an award at the London World Exhibition.
• 1892—Albion artist Frank Courter is commissioned to paint the meeting between Truth and President Abraham Lincoln.
• 1981—Truth is inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
• 1981—Feminist theorist and author bell hooks titles her first major work after Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.

• 1983—Truth is in the first group of women inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in Lansing.
• 1986—U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Sojourner Truth.
• 1997—The NASA Mars Pathfinder mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after her.
• 1998—S.T. Writes Home appears on the web offering "Letters to Mom from Sojourner Truth," in which the Mars Pathfinder Rover at times echoes its namesake.
• 1999—The Broadway musical The Civil War includes Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman. On the 1999 cast recording, it was performed by Maya Angelou.
• The leftist group the Sojourner Truth Organization is named after her.
• The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America commemorates her as a renewer of society on March 10, with Harriet Tubman.
• 2002—scholar Molefi Kete Asante lists Sojourner Truth on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
• 2004—The King's College, located inside the Empire State Building in New York City, has a house system (modeled after Oxford University's), and each house is named after an influential leader. In 2004, they voted to name one of the houses 'The House of Sojourner Truth'.
• She is commemorated in a monument of "Michigan Legal Milestones" erected by the State Bar of Michigan.
• She is also commemorated together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer and Harriet Ross Tubman in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on July 20.
• The Library at the State University of New York at New Paltz, in New Paltz, New York, is named in her honor.
• 2009—The first black woman honored with a bust in the US Capitol. The bust was sculpted by noted artist Artis Lane.