The 14th Annual Sojourner Truth Memorial Celebration, free and open to the public, will be held on Sunday, May 29, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Sojourner Truth statue, at the corner of Park and Pine Streets in Florence, MA. The celebration will be highlighted by a keynote address Read more…
Sojourner Truth and David Ruggles Committees will offer once a month walking tours of the history of 19th c. Florence. You will hear about Sojourner Truth, David Ruggles, Frederick Douglass and many more people who participated in the radical abolitionism of Florence in the 1840s-1860s. Usually these walks will occur Read more…
Scholarship award recipients and more. Our program in 2015 featured speaker Dr. Jacquelyn Smith-Crooks, and singer Gloria DeLayne Matlock.
The Sojourner Truth Committee is pleased to announce their involvement with the Pioneer Valley’s one day of giving called Valley Gives on December 12, 2013. Mark your calendars for this special day when you can conveniently make a contribution to support our work. In the twenty years of the committee’s Read more…
The Sojourner Truth Memorial Statue Committee and the David Ruggles Center for Early Florence History are hosting a benefit concert on Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 p.m. featuring the Nields, a popular local folk-rock sister duo. The concert will be held at First Churches in Northampton, at 129 Main Street. Read more…
The 2013 Annual Celebration of Sojourner’s spirit was a lively one. Entertainment, premier of a new book, scholarship winners and more.
In Spring 2013 with generous grant support from Mass Foundation for Humanities the committee launched a new curriculum project to integrate Sojourner Truth’s history and 19th century Florence abolitionist history into local high school curriculum. New Leadership Charter High School, Springfield MA., is the first school to use the new Read more…