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Sojourner Truth Celebrated With a Bust at the Capitol

By Editor published on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 and is filed under Money. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Hundreds of people — mostly women, a majority of them African American — packed the Capitol Visitors Center’s Emancipation Hall today to witness the unveiling of a bronze bust of Sojourner Truth, former slave, abolitionist and suffragette.

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