Sojourner Truth: Equal Rights Advocate

Grandes Personajes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos

by Kathleen Collins

"If women want any rights more than they've got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it." Sojourner Truth told it like it was, and when not ideal, told it like it should be. Using primary sources, this book presents fascinating details about this tremendously powerful woman. Readers will learn fact from fiction, and be able to use this resource for biography and social studies projects.

32 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2003

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Kathleen Collins was a pioneer African American playwright, filmmaker, civil rights activist, film editor, and educator. Her film Losing Ground is one of the first features made by a black woman in America, and is an extremely rare narrative portrayal of a black female intellectual. Collins died in 1988 at the age of forty-six.