"An illiterate freed slave, she was an eloquent critic of slavery and sexism, transfixing audiences with the force and simplicity of her message of Christian love and tolerance. Her famous ‘Ain't I a Woman’ speech, delivered to a women's rights convention in 1851, disrupted forever assumptions about race, class and gender in American society." – Donald Schell

Photo: Copyright 2007 David Sanger – Iconographer: Mark Dukes for “The Dancing Saints” at St. Gregory of Nyssa, San Francisco, CA

July 20 – Sojourner Truth (c. 1797/98 – November 26, 1883), Antislavery reformer