The Crusade for Truth
The IAM Women's Dept. and the IAM Human
Rights Dept. is teaming up with the National Congress of
Black Women to urge Congress to pass HR 601, a bill which
seeks to add the likeness of Sojourner Truth to the
Women's Suffrage monument currently on display in the
rotunda of the US Capitol.
Sojourner Truth, an African American who rose up
from slavery in pre-civil War New York to become a noted
preacher, orator, abolitionist and women's rights
activist, was one of a quartet of famous women generally
credited as the founding mothers of the movement to win
the vote, and equality of rights with men, for women in
America.
The other three, who are white ― Lucretia Mott,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony ― are
depicted in a statue known as the "Portrait Monument, a
13-ton limestone block presently on view in the U.S.
Capitol Rotunda.
To participate, please download and print the petition
linked to the bottom of this article. Circulate and return
completed petitions to the IAM Women's Dept., 9000
Machinists Place, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772. Let's put
Truth into suffragist history.
The Crusade for Truth Petition:
http://npcbw.org/newweb/ST_Petition_Nov2003.pdf
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