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Sojourner Truth Commemorative Installation Edition DVD - Limited Offer
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Your Price: Normally $30 - You pay only shipping and handling ($13.00)
Item Number: TMP 5498-1-6
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The National Congress of Black Women, Inc. is chaired by Dr. E. Faye
Williams, Esq. who succeeded Dr. C. DeLores Tucker and former
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm--the two convening leaders of the
organization. Both women passed away in 2005, and the bill to
memorialize Sojourner Truth had not yet passed in Congress. Dr.
Williams, Dr. Michelle Battle (former Chief Operating Officer) and
members of NCBW across the country worked to get the bill honoring
Sojourner Truth passed, and they spent the last 2 and one half years
raising funds to make it happen. The final bill was championed by
then-Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Arlen Specter,
Congresswomen Sheila Jackson-Lee and Diane Watson, as well as others.
At the official unveiling, NCBW members and friends came to Washington
from all over the country to see First Lady Michelle Obama do the
unveiling honors. Actress Cicely Tyson performed Sojourner’s “Ain’t I A
Woman” speech that was first delivered at a Women’s Conference in
Akron, Ohio. The speech was so powerful that it is credited with
igniting the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Sojourner was also instrumental
in working to abolish slavery. The separate memorial to Sojourner came
about when it was discovered that Sojourner had been left off the
Portrait Monument that commemorates the right of women to vote.
Agreeing to a stand-alone memorial of Sojourner Truth finally corrects
the injustice of leaving her off the original monument. Others
participating on the program were Lomax Spaulding, Yolanda Adams,
Dorinda Clarke-Cole, Bishop Vashti M. McKenzie, and the young people
from the Ron Clarke School from Atlanta, Georgia.
The proceeds from the purchase of this Memorial DVD will go toward a number of National Congress of Black Women projects.
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