Site of Sojourner Truth’s Speech on Women’s Rights

Site of Sojourner Truth’s Speech on Women’s Rights is an Ohio historical marker in Summit County.

Summit County · 37 North High Street, Akron, OH, 44308 -- On the wall at the entrance to United Way of Summit County building

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Side A: On this site on May 29, 1851, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, gave her world famous “And Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, recalling the hardships she had endured. Active in both the abolitionist and women’s rights movements, she electrified an audience of women and men who had come to the Universalist Stone Church for a two-day women’s rights convention. Side B: Same

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Marker data: Ohio Historical Markers program, Ohio History Connection (Remarkable Ohio)

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