Summit County Sojourner Truth Memorial

The Sojourner Truth Statue is a renewed effort to establish a dedicated memorial in Akron, the site of Truth's famous speech that challenged the exclusion of women of color from the women’s rights movement.

Learn about the Site of
Sojourner Truth's 'Ain't I A Woman' Speech

This building was constructed in 1916 and renovated in the early 1990s and named in honor of Sojourner Truth, the famous abolitionist and women's rights orator who is credited with making a speech challenging the exclusion of women of color from antebellum women's movement.

Read about local women from the akron area WOMEN'S history project

The Women’s History Project of the Akron Area, Inc. became a program of the Summit County Historical Society of Akron, OH in 2013. The merger occurred during the 30th anniversary year for the Women’s History Project and in anticipation of the Society’s 90th anniversary in 2014.

Know Ohio

This video from WVIZ/PBS Ideastream briefly discusses the dual issues of women’s rights and racial equality at the time of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, which she gave at the 1851 Ohio Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio. A transcript of the video is available. Grades 3-8.

Listen to The Genius of Liberty Podcast Series

A podcast series about the crucial yet forgotten role Ohio played in the fight for woman suffrage. Written and voiced by Katherine Durack and produced in partnership with the Mercantile Library in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Learn about Ohio’s Connections to Women’s Suffrage

“From the first days of the movement, long before 1848 and Seneca Falls, Ohio and Ohioans led the nation in campaigning for equal rights and opportunities for women.”

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

The digitized 1878 book on the life of Sojourner Truth through her own recollections.

Sojourner Truth Digital Exhibit

The National Women’s History Museum displays the life of Sojourner Truth as a digital exhibit and offers a section with lesson plans focused on the work of Truth and others in the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

The Sojourner Truth Project

This project looks at the controversy over the two transcriptions of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I A Woman?’ speech. This Web site provides the opportunity to compare the speeches and includes readings by women in contemporary Afro-Dutch dialects, representing Truth’s now lost specific dialect.

“There is a River.” This Far by Faith.  PBS

Episode 1 of the This Far by Faith series about the African-American religious experience includes the key moments of Sojourner Truth’s faith during her life as an enslaved woman and activist. Only the transcript of the episode is available here.