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Ain't I a Woman?
Celebrating the life of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth Day commemorates the death of Sojourner Truth, on November 26, 1883.
She was a former slave who had been called Isabella Baumfree. As a black woman, Sojourner Truth was doubly discriminated against and followed her calling to fight for African-American rights as well as Women's Suffrage.
An imposing figure, at nearly six feet in height, and a strong woman, she is most remembered as a charismatic orator. Her unrehearsed speeches were delivered, in a down-to-earth style, by way of a voice said to be both soothing enough to subdue a mob and powerful enough to resonate like thunder.
The largest crowd ever in attendance to a funeral at the Congregational Church, in Battle Creek, Michigan, attests to the effect Sojourner Truth had on the lives of so many.
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Her works available online
Women as Photographers and Subjects
Photographer of the Week: Carla Williams
Carla Williams is a photographer and writer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her photographic work has appeared in The New Yorker and has been exhibited nationally including the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Smithsonian Institution. She is co-author of two histories of photography: The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, and Photographs: George Eastman House, Rochester NY.
She uses self-portraits to investigate representations of the black female body throughout photographic history. She positions herself as both photographer and subject to break down the separation between the object and the viewer's gaze.
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