Sojourner Truth - Cultural References

Cultural References

1862—William Wetmore Story's statue, "The Libyan Sibyl", inspired by Sojourner Truth, won an award at the London World Exhibition.
1892—Albion artist Frank Courter is commissioned to paint the meeting between Truth and President Abraham Lincoln.
1981—Truth is inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York.
1981—Feminist theorist and author bell hooks titles her first major work after Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech.

1983—Truth is in the first group of women inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in Lansing.
1986—U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Sojourner Truth.
1997—The NASA Mars Pathfinder mission's robotic rover was named "Sojourner" after her.
1998—S.T. Writes Home appears on the web offering "Letters to Mom from Sojourner Truth," in which the Mars Pathfinder Rover at times echoes its namesake.
1999—The Broadway musical The Civil War includes Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman. On the 1999 cast recording, it was performed by Maya Angelou.
The leftist group the Sojourner Truth Organization is named after her.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America commemorates her as a renewer of society on March 10, with Harriet Tubman.
2002—scholar Molefi Kete Asante lists Sojourner Truth on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
2004—The King's College, located inside the Empire State Building in New York City, has a house system (modeled after Oxford University's), and each house is named after an influential leader. In 2004, they voted to name one of the houses 'The House of Sojourner Truth'.
She is commemorated in a monument of "Michigan Legal Milestones" erected by the State Bar of Michigan.
She is also commemorated together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer and Harriet Ross Tubman in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on July 20.
The Library at the State University of New York at New Paltz, in New Paltz, New York, is named in her honor.
2009—The first black woman honored with a bust in the US Capitol. The bust was sculpted by noted artist Artis Lane.