Sojourner Truth
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Nov 3, 2026
Karina LongworthHOST
"'I communicate with my lyrics "'while he touches the audience on another emotional level.' Finding Gerald was like manna from heaven.
Karina LongworthHOST
At Libby's request, Cook created songs out of some speeches Libby had collected by Sojourner Truth, a formerly enslaved Black woman who traveled the country in the mid-1800s advocating abolition and women's rights.
Karina LongworthHOST
As usual, at her Hamptons concert that July, the audience politely put up with Libby's musical activism while clamoring for her greatest hits, which thrilled the crowd when she deigned to sing them.
Karina LongworthHOST
The moanin' low girl of the 30s was back, raved Newsweek.
Ruth E. CarterGUEST
We don't have a lot, but we have our art.
Ruth E. CarterGUEST
I love to draw faces of people from my illustrated history books, like educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune and abolitionist Sojourner Truth.
Ruth E. CarterGUEST
Sometimes I draw funny self-portraits of myself.
Ruth E. CarterGUEST
But tonight, I'm working on something special.
Miriam WarrenGUEST
There was none of that.
Miriam WarrenGUEST
But there were stories like ones about Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, little girls who had been part of the resistance against the Nazis in World War II, the Underground Railroad.
Miriam WarrenGUEST
women fighting for the right to vote, all of these marginalized populations who banded together to form a community with lots of allies around them in order to find justice.
Miriam WarrenGUEST
And I think for me, it's always been this very early, early sense that I Maybe was lacking in community, but knew that I could find one or make one for myself first, maybe in a more like esoteric because I had read about in books, it must be true that it could happen and later.
HootsHOST
They'd also occasionally take private seances between shows, which presumably carried a higher fee than the dollar, so they were like making bank.
HootsHOST
Their public performances attracted celebrities, activists, and intellectuals of the day like Sojourner Truth, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant.
HootsHOST
And they attracted detractors.
HootsHOST
So there were also like a lot of like skeptics.
ChrisHOST
These stories remind us that He's always at work, shaping our hearts, building faith, and writing something beautiful through every woman's journey.
ChrisHOST
Sojourner Truth, US.
ChrisHOST
Mountain-sized faith.
ChrisHOST
Having been a slave, Isabella Bonfrey was legally freed by the state of New York in 1827.
ChrisHOST
She became distressed, asking God for a last name.
ChrisHOST
As she walked on, his words rang clear in her mind.
ChrisHOST
She would be known as Sojourner Truth.
ChrisHOST
It was a beautiful night in Northampton, Massachusetts, when Sojourner Truth, in the early days of her travels, attended an outdoor meeting to worship Christ with her fellow Christians.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
talked about the spiritualist movement on the show before, we have usually been talking about things that happened a little bit earlier than this, in the 19th or very early 20th century.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
Previous episodes have covered 19th century figures like the Sisters Fox and Madame Blavatsky, and spiritualism has come up in episodes about other people who lived during the same time, including mother Rebecca Cox Jackson and Sojourner Truth.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
But spiritualism didn't end with the Victorian era.
Tracy V. WilsonHOST
It was still going strong after the devastation of World War I and the 1918 flu pandemic, as people tried to reconnect with loved ones who had died.
Colin McLaughlinGUEST
And there's a lot of activism and protest that is spontaneous and kind of seems to rise from a deep need in the moment.
Colin McLaughlinGUEST
it's kind of feels like the legend of Rosa Parks is in a deep way inspired by Claudette Colvin even though if we don't know her name because Claudette was truly a 15 year old sitting on a bus thinking about her history lessons that day and the months leading up you know imagining Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman on her shoulders saying like you do not have to get up you know and so for claudette it actually was this kind of spontaneous like moral choice that kind of rippled through her entire life beautiful
Troy SchneiderHOST
well and i think it's beautiful that the young people hear the words and they hear these things and they say oh that's injustice and so this is what's right And they're not jaded yet.
Troy SchneiderHOST
They haven't been, you know, they haven't seen that, oh, that is not really how the world works.
Petros PapadakisHOST
Great sports talk.
Petros PapadakisHOST
Like Sojourner Truth.
Petros PapadakisHOST
And that is us.
Petros PapadakisHOST
Sojourning and telling the truth.
Da'VinchiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Like I can't live in that space.
Da'VinchiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So- Forgive me if my thinking was in a way that was like offensive, but it's like, that's the resilience that I try to tap into.
Da'VinchiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You know, the Sojourner Truths of the world, the Harriet Tubman's of the world.
Da'VinchiSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
These people to where it's just like, no, despite what's going on, no, we're going to prevail and we're going to love our way through it.
WaynoHOST
Yeah, I hear what he's saying.
Meghan SacksHOST
And while most schools celebrated a Negro History Week in the 40s and 50s, Claudette's school celebrated Black history for the entire month of February because her teachers felt it that Black people were absent from history books, and this is, they should celebrate more.
Meghan SacksHOST
Through these teachings, Claudette found personal heroes in Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, women whose legacies likely inspired Claudette's actions one day on a city bus.
Meghan SacksHOST
On March 2nd, 1955, Claudette and some of her classmates took the downtown city bus home.
Meghan SacksHOST
It was segregated, like everything else in the city, and Claudette and her friends sat behind the first five rows as these were reserved for
Meghan SacksHOST
Claudette would later say the following when she refused to move again.
Meghan SacksHOST
Quote, I could not move because history had glued me to the seat.
Meghan SacksHOST
Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman's hands were pushing me down on another shoulder.
Meghan SacksHOST
Whoa.
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