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Sojouner Truth

Actors To Voice Women’s Rights Pioneers

August 2, 2020 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Rendering of the statue to be built in New Yorks Central ParkThe organization Monumental Women has announced that actors Jane Alexander, Viola Davis, America Ferrera, Rita Moreno, Zoe Saldana and Meryl Streep will portray Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in English and Spanish-Language ‘Talking Statues’ monologues that will accompany the ​Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument​.

The Monument featuring Truth, Anthony and Stanton is set to be unveiled on Central Park’s Literary Walk on August 26, 2020, the centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19​th​ Amendment, when women won the right to vote. [Read more…] about Actors To Voice Women’s Rights Pioneers

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Central Park, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Monumental Women, New York City, Sojouner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Women Suffrage, womens history

#MonumentalWomen Project (Podcast)

March 23, 2020 by Clare Sheridan Leave a Comment

crossroads of rockland historyThe March 2020 episode of “Crossroads of Rockland History” focused on the #MonumentalWomen Project.

Pam Elam (President, Monumental Women) and Meredith Bergmann (Sculptor), appeared to speak about the all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization, created in 2014 with the initial goal of breaking the bronze ceiling and creating the first statue of real women in Central Park’s 166-year history. [Read more…] about #MonumentalWomen Project (Podcast)

Filed Under: History, New York City Tagged With: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Historical Society of Rockland County, Podcasts, Rockland County, Sojouner Truth, Suffrage Movement, Susan B. Anthony, womens history

Central Park Women’s Rights Statue Unveiling Date Set

January 22, 2020 by Editorial Staff 4 Comments

Rendering of the statue to be built in New Yorks Central ParkMonumental Women has set a date for the unveiling of the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument on the Mall in the City of New York’s Central Park. The statue is the first statue depicting a real woman in the Park’s 167-year History.

The original statue of women’s rights pioneers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony was redesigned to include Sojourner Truth after criticism that the original design excluded the contributions of people of color. It’s being sculpted by Meredith Bergmann. [Read more…] about Central Park Women’s Rights Statue Unveiling Date Set

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, Central Park, Civil Rights, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, NYC, Public History, Slavery, Sojouner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Women Suffrage

The Prophet Matthias and Elijah the Tishbite

December 23, 2019 by Miguel Hernandez 7 Comments

MatthiasLong before the fictional and shocking “Peyton Place” of TV and film fame came along in the late 1950s, and early 1960s there was an actual suburban community where its residents were roiled by rampant scandal, moral and religious hypocrisy and a sensational a murder in their midst. [Read more…] about The Prophet Matthias and Elijah the Tishbite

Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills, New York City Tagged With: Abolition, African American History, Black History, Crime and Justice, Gender History, Legal History, Manhattan, New York City, Religion, Slavery, Sojouner Truth, Washington County, Westchester County

Central Park Statue Redesigned To Include Sojouner Truth

August 12, 2019 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

The Monumental Women’s Statue Fund announced a redesigned statue to honor pioneering women’s rights advocates – the first statue depicting real women in the 165-year history of New York City’s Central Park.

The redesign comes on the heals of criticism that the original design excluded the contributions of people of color.

The amended design, which still includes Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but now adds Sojourner Truth, is expected to be released on Women’s Equality Day, August 26th. [Read more…] about Central Park Statue Redesigned To Include Sojouner Truth

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Historic Preservation, New York City, NYC, Sojouner Truth, suffrage, Suffrage Centennial, Women's Suffrage

Proposals Sought for Sojourner Truth Monument

October 1, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) has announced a request for proposals (RFP) from potential private sector partners to design, build and install a monument in commemoration of famed abolitionist and suffragette Sojourner Truth.

The monument of Sojourner Truth will be sited at the Walkway Over the Hudson along the Empire State Trail in Ulster County, where she was born. Truth was born into slavery circa 1797, sold three times, and ultimately escaped to freedom in 1826. She went on to become a noted abolitionist and women’s rights advocate until her death in 1883. [Read more…] about Proposals Sought for Sojourner Truth Monument

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, Historic Preservation, Slavery, Sojouner Truth, State Parks, Walkway Over The Hudson

Slave Dwelling Project Shines Light on Northern Slavery

September 1, 2016 by Editorial Staff 3 Comments

joseph mcgillJoseph McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project, will spend Friday night, September 9th, in a cellar kitchen at Historic Huguenot Street in New Paltz as part of the historian’s ongoing mission to bring awareness to former slave dwellings’ existence, history, and need for preservation.

Six SUNY New Paltz students and several members of the public will be invited to join McGill and his associate Terry James to share in this symbolic return to a time when even northern households enslaved Africans. [Read more…] about Slave Dwelling Project Shines Light on Northern Slavery

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Abolition, Black History, Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, Slavery, Sojouner Truth, Ulster County, Underground Railroad

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