Sojourner Truth They called her Sojourner Truth, but in actuality, her name was Isabella Baumfree. She was born in 1797 in Ulster County, New York, to James and Elizabethan Baumfree. Along with her parents, she spent her life on the Johannesburg estate as a slave. Dutch was her first language since Dutch people enslaved her. Despite everything, when she turned […]
JFK ASsassination…the most important lesson people can learn from History? “If you’re like me, you’ve always loved History. I mean, who doesn’t love the stories of how things got to be the way they are? But if you think about it, there are many more interesting lessons people can learn from History than “here’s what happened in this period.” For […]
In 1915, at 23 years old, Coleman moved to Chicago, where she lived with her brothers and worked as a manicurist. Not long after her move to Chicago, she began listening to and reading stories of World War I pilots, which sparked her interest in aviation. First Black Woman Aviator—Bessie Coleman In 1922, a time of both gender and racial […]