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Barack Obama

freshwest

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

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Tue Dec 3, 2013, 11:41 PM

Dec 2013

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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?

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A Warning From 1851 To Those Who Deny Human Rights. [View all] freshwest Dec 2013 OP

With a name like that, how could she miss? IrishAyes Dec 2013 #1

Thank you freshwest~ Cha Dec 2013 #2

Extraordinary Woman... sheshe2 Dec 2013 #3

Another version on Capitol Hill in 2009. Look at who's there... freshwest Dec 2013 #4

Good question JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #5

I know some of the American history books have been slanted to trivia. freshwest Dec 2013 #6