speak for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights across the United States.

She was an abolitionist, women's rights activist and preacher.

Born into slavery (as Isabella Baumfree) in upstate New York she obtained her freedom and moved to New York City.

Freed from slavery in 1828, Truth encountered the abolitionist movement in 1843 and became the first black woman to crusade for abolition; she was received by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in the White House in 1864.

Truth embraced the women's rights movement in 1850, and from then on her speaking tours across the country included the themes of equality for blacks and for women.

She fought for the desegregation of public transportation in Washington, D.C.

during the Civil War. She refused to face the indignities of Jim Crow segregation on street cars and had the Jim Crow car removed for the D.C.

system. A local street came to a standstill when a driver refused her passage and with the support of the crowd she forced the driver to carry her.

Sojourner Truth, an orator who spoke against slavery in the US.