TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDonough,Yona Zeldis
AU  - Eldridge,Jim
TI  - Who Was Sojourner Truth?
T2  - Who was ...?
SN  - 9780448486789
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Grosset & Dunlap
KW  - Truth, Sojourner,
KW  - African American abolitionists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - African American women
KW  - Abolitionists
KW  - United States
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 106); Who was Sojourner Truth? -- Early days -- Freedom ahead -- The big city -- A new name, a new calling -- "Ain't I a woman?" -- War! -- A streetcar ride -- The final years -- Timelines
N2  - "Almost 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat, Sojourner Truth was mistreated by a streetcar conductor. She took him to court--and won! Before she was Sojourner Truth, she was known simply as Belle. Born a slave in New York sometime around 1797, she was later sold and separated from her family. Even after she escaped from slavery, she knew her work was not yet done. She changed her name and traveled, inspiring everyone she met and sharing her story until her death in 1883 at age eighty-six. In this easy-to-read biography, Yona Zeldis McDonough continues to share that remarkable story"--
ER  -